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2 Tell the entire Israeli community that they must be separate from others, because I, your god Yahweh, am holy (i.e., separated from impurity).[ref] 3 Everyone must respect and obey their parents, and observe my rest days. I am your god Yahweh.[ref]
4 Don’t turn to worthless idols, and don’t make cast metal gods for yourselves. I am your god Yahweh.[ref]
5 When you all sacrifice peace offerings, do it correctly so that you’ll all be accepted. 6 The meat from your sacrifice must be eaten that same day or the next day—anything left until the third day must be thrown into the fire. 7 If it was to be eaten on the third day, it would be ‘unclean’ and not acceptable, 8 and the people eating it would have to bear their own guilt for profaning Yahweh’s holiness, and that person must be cut off from the community.
9 When you all harvest your crops off your land, you mustn’t cut the grain right to the very edge of your field, and nor can you all pick up any dropped stalks.[ref] 10 In your vineyards, you must not pick every last grape or pick up any that fall on the ground, because they must be left for the poor and for the foreigners. I am your god Yahweh.
11 You all mustn’t steal or deceive, or defraud any fellow citizen,[ref] 12 and don’t use my name to seal a promise and then go ahead and ruin my reputation. I am Yahweh.[ref]
13 Don’t oppress your neighbours or steal from them. Don’t fail to pay a day-labourer as they finish each day’s work.[ref] 14 Don’t curse a deaf person, or put something in front of a blind person to trip them. You must respect and obey your god. I am Yahweh.[ref]
15 Don’t judge unfairly—showing partiality to the poor, or honouring those who are well-known—you must always judge your fellow citizens fairly.[ref] 16 Don’t go around slandering people. Don’t take advantage of your neighbour’s death. I am Yahweh.
17 You mustn’t hate your brother. Certainly rebuke those you interact with so you don’t get blamed for their bad behaviour.[ref] 18 Don’t try to get revenge against others or hold a grudge against any of your people, but instead, love your neighbour as yourself. I am Yahweh.[ref]
19 Follow my instructions—don’t crossbreed two different kinds of animals, don’t sow two different crops in your field, and don’t wear clothing made of different kinds of thread.[ref]
20 If a man impregnates a woman who’s destined to be someone else’s slave and she hasn’t been freed, compensation needs to be paid.[fn] They mustn’t be executed, because she hadn’t been freed. 21 However, that man must take a ram to Yahweh at the sacred tent’s entrance for a guilt offering, 22 and the priest will make him right with Yahweh by means of that guilt offering ram, and then he’ll be forgiven for his transgression.
23 When you all enter into the land and plant various kinds of fruit trees, you mustn’t eat the fruit for the first three years—it should be regarded as ‘uncircumcised’ for that duration. 24 Then in the fourth year, all that fruit must be regarded as ‘sacred’—praise offerings for Yahweh. 25 Finally, in the fifth year, you can eat that fruit and add that produce to your harvest. I am your god Yahweh.
26 Don’t eat anything with the blood still in it. Don’t practice divination or witchcraft.[ref] 27 Don’t have haircuts that round off your hair at the sides, and men, don’t trim the edges of your beards.[ref] 28 Don’t make cuts on your bodies when someone dies, and don’t tattoo yourselves. I am Yahweh.
29 don’t defile your daughter by making her prostitute herself, so the country doesn’t prostitute itself and become full of wickedness.[ref] 30 Keep my rest days, and respect my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.[ref]
31 Don’t turn to mediums and diviners—don’t make yourselves ‘unclean’ by means of them. I am your god Yahweh.[ref]
32 Stand up for those with gray hair, and honour the presence of the elderly. Honour and respect your god. I am Yahweh.
33 Don’t take advantage of foreigners when they stay in your land—[ref] 34 you all must treat foreigners the same as native-born Israelis and love them like you love yourselves, because you were all foreigners in Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim). I am your god Yahweh.
35 Don’t allow injustice either in judging cases, or by trading with rigged weights and measures—[ref] 36 your scales and weights and measuring containers must be honest. I am your god Yahweh who brought you all out of Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim). 37 You all must obey my instructions and decisions and stick to them. I am Yahweh.
19:20 We as modern readers don’t understand all the dynamics of this seemingly complex social situation.
19:3: a Exo 20:12; Deu 5:16; b Exo 20:8; Deu 5:12.
19:4: a Lev 26:1; b Exo 20:23; 34:17; Deu 27:15.
19:9-10: Lev 27:15; Deu 24:19-22.
19:11: a Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; b Exo 20:16; Deu 5:20.
19:12: Exo 20:7; Deu 5:11; Mat 5:33.
19:18: Mat 5:43; 19:19; 22:39; Mrk 12:31; Luk 10:27; Rom 13:9; Gal 5:14; Jam 2:8.
19:26: a Gen 9:4; Lev 7:26-27; 17:10-14; Deu 12:16,23; 15:23; b Deu 18:10.
19:31: Deu 18:11; 1Sam 28:3; 2Ki 23:4; Isa 8:19.
Lev 11:44-45:
44 because I am your god Yahweh. You all must keep yourselves holy, and you’re a holy people because I’m holy. So don’t make yourselves ‘unclean’ with any swarming creatures that creep across the ground[ref] 45 because I am Yahweh, the one who brought you all out of Egypt to be your god, and you must be holy because I am holy.
1Pe 1:16:
16 [ref]because it’s been written that ‘you’ll be holy people because I am holy.’
Exo 20:12:
Deu 5:16:
Exo 20:8:
Deu 5:12:
Lev 26:1:
26 You all mustn’t make worthless idols or carved images for yourselves, or set up sacred pillars. In your country, you must never bow down to an engraved stone image, because I am your god Yahweh.[ref]
Exo 20:23:
23 You all mustn’t make gods out of silver or gold for yourselves to have alongside me.
34:17:
17 Don’t make cast metal gods for yourselves.[ref]
Deu 27:15:
15 ‘Anyone who makes a figure, whether carved from wood or cast from metal, and secretly sets it up to worship will be cursed because Yahweh abhors it.’[ref]
Then the people must reply, ‘Let it be so.’
Lev 27:15:
15 However, if that person decides to buy back their house, then an extra twenty percent must be added to the valuation and then it can be theirs again.
Deu 24:19-22:
19 When you harvest your crops, if you forget a tied bundle in your field, don’t go back to get it—it’ll be for a resident foreigner or an orphan or widow to pick up, so that your god Yahweh can bless everything that you do.[ref] 20 When you beat your olive tree to make the fruit fall, don’t go back over it to pick the ones still on the tree. Those will be for the foreigner, or the orphan or widow. 21 Similarly, when you pick your grapes in the vineyard, don’t go back over the vines a second time. Those will be for the foreigner, or the orphan or widow. 22 Don’t forget that you were a slave in Egypt—that’s why I’m instructing you to do those things.
Exo 20:15:
Deu 5:19:
Exo 20:16:
Deu 5:20:
Exo 20:7:
Deu 5:11:
Mat 5:33:
33 [ref]“Also, you’ve heard that it was said to our ancestors that you shouldn’t break your oath, but you must do whatever you promised to Yahweh.
Deu 24:14-15:
14 Don’t oppress any poor or needy hired workers, whether they’re fellow Israelis or foreigners who live in your towns.[ref] 15 At the end of each day, pay them before sunset, because they need it to live on. Then they won’t cry out to Yahweh against you and have him hold you accountable.
Deu 27:18:
18 ‘Anyone who leads a blind person down the wrong path will be cursed.’
Then the people must reply, ‘Let it be so.’
Exo 23:6-8:
6 You mustn’t deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.[ref] 7 Stay far way from deceptive words. You mustn’t kill innocent or honest people because I won’t allow wicked people to be declared innocent. 8 You mustn’t accept bribes, because bribes stop people from being unbiased and they undermine the words of honest people.
Deu 16:19:
19 You mustn’t pervert justice or give favours. Don’t accept bribes because a bribe causes an otherwise wise person to ignore evil and misrepresents what innocent people say.[ref]
Mat 18:15:
18:15 Confronting an offender
15 [ref]“If a fellow believer sins, go where there’s just the two of you and rebuke that person privately. If they listen to you, you have gained back a fellow believer.
Mat 5:43:
5:43 Love your enemies
43 “You’ve all heard it said that you should love your neighbour and hate your enemy,
19:19:
19 [ref]honour your parents, and love your neighbour like yourself.”
22:39:
39 [ref]The next is similar to it: You should love your neighbour like yourself.
Mrk 12:31:
31 [ref]And the second is: ‘Love your neighbour like you look after yourself.’ There’s no other commands more important than these.”
Luk 10:27:
27 [ref]“You must love your God Yahweh with all your heart and all your soul, and all your strength and all your mind,” he replied. “Also, you must love your neighbour as yourself.”
Rom 13:9:
9 which is:[ref] Don’t commit adultery. Don’t murder. Don’t steal. Don’t covet what others have. All of those plus any other commands can be summarised as: Love your neighbour like you love yourself.
13:9: a Exo 20:14; Deu 5:18; b Exo 20:13; Deu 5:17; c Exo 20:15; Deu 5:19; d Exo 20:17; Deu 5:21; e Lev 19:18.
Gal 5:14:
14 [ref]because the entire law can be fulfilled by obeying one rule: Love your neighbour like yourself.
Jam 2:8:
8 However if you are obeying the golden law, then when you love your neighbour as yourself,[ref] you’ll be doing well according to the scriptures.
Deu 22:9-11:
9 Don’t plant a crop in your vineyard, because then the harvest of the crop and the fruit from the vineyard will both be defiled.[fn][ref]
10 Don’t plough with a cow and a donkey harnessed together.
11 Don’t wear clothes with a mix of wool and linen.
22:9 Or possibly, become sacred.
Gen 9:4:
4 the only exception is meat with it’s life blood still in it.[ref]
Lev 7:26-27:
26 “Also, you all must not eat blood from either a bird or an animal, no matter where you’re living.[ref] 27 Any person who does eat blood must be cut off from the community.”
17:10-14:
10 If there’s any Israeli or foreigner living among them, who eats blood, then I’ll oppose that person and remove them from the community[ref] 11 because the body’s life is in the blood. I myself have given you blood to make atonement for your lives at the altar, because it’s the blood that can atone for life.[ref] 12 That’s why I told the Israelis that none of them must eat blood—not even the foreigners that live among them may eat blood.
13 So any person (Israeli or foreigner living among them) who catches wild game (including birds) to eat, they must pour its blood out and cover it with soil 14 because the life of their bodies is the blood that’s in them. Again, that’s why I’ve told the Israelis not to eat the blood of any living thing because the life is in the blood, and anyone who eats it must be cut off from the community.
Deu 12:16,23:
16 However, don’t eat the blood—it must be poured out on the ground like water.[ref] 23 However, don’t eat the blood of any animal, because the blood is the life and you mustn’t eat the life with the meat.[ref]
15:23:
23 However, don’t eat the blood—it must be poured out on the ground like water.[ref]
Deu 18:10:
10 There mustn’t be anyone among you who passes their son or daughter through fire, or who uses divination or omens to try to tell the future, or who practices sorcery,[ref]
Lev 21:5:
5 They must not shave their heads or trim the edges of their beards or cut their bodies in grief.[ref]
Deu 14:1:
14 You’re all children of your god Yahweh so don’t cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the sake of the dead,[ref]
Deu 23:17:
17 Don’t allow any Israeli man or woman to become a religious[fn] prostitute.[ref]
23:17 Or, cultic.
Lev 26:2:
2 You all must observe my rest days and honour my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
Deu 18:11:
11 or who puts spells on people, or who tries to talk to spirits of deceased people,
1Sam 28:3:
3 By now, Shemu’el was long dead and all Yisrael had mourned for him and had buried him in his town of Ramah, and Sha’ul had had expelled all the mediums from the country, along with those who contacted the spirits.[ref]
2Ki 23:4:
4 Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiyah and the other priests, and the temple guards to bring out all the utensils that were made for Baal and Asherah and for all the constellations, and he burnt them outside Yerushalem in the Kidron countryside, and carried their ashes to Beyt-El.
Isa 8:19:
19 When they tell you all to consult mediums and fortunetellers who chirp and mutter, shouldn’t the people consult their god rather than the dead guiding the living?
Exo 22:21:
21 You mustn’t disadvantage or oppress any foreigner staying in your country, because you were foreigners staying in the land of Egypt.[ref]
Deu 24:17-18:
17 Don’t pervert justice if it involves foreigners or orphans, and don’t take a widow’s cloak as security for a loan.[ref] 18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and your god Yahweh rescued you from there. That’s why I’m commanding you to do those things—to be considerate about helping other people who are in need.
27:19:
19 ‘Anyone who perverts justice for a foreigner or orphan or widow will be cursed.’[ref]
Then the people must reply, ‘Let it be so.’
Deu 25:13-16:
25:13 Don’t all cheat
13 Don’t keep two stone weights in your bag—a lighter one and a heavier one for when you’re buying and selling.[ref] 14 Don’t keep two measuring containers in your house—a smaller one and a larger one. 15 You must use exact stone weights and measuring containers so that your god Yahweh will prolong your time in the country that he’s giving you—16 he can’t stand people who cheat others.
Prv 20:10:
10 Differing weights and unequal measures—
→ Yahweh hates both of them.
Eze 45:10:
