1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, ^fYou shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 3 Every one of you shall ^grevere his mother and his father, and you shall ^hkeep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 4 Do not turn to idols ⁱor make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.

5 “When you offer a sacrifice of ^jpeace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it ^kso that you may be accepted. 6 ^lIt shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and ^manything left over until the third day shall be burned up with fire. 7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is ⁿtainted; it will not be accepted, 8 and everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has ^oprofaned what is holy to the Lord, and that person shall be ^pcut off from his people.

9 ^q“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. 10 And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.

11 ^r“You shall not steal; ^syou shall not deal falsely; ^tyou shall not lie to one another. 12 ^uYou shall not swear ^vby my name falsely, and so ^wprofane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

13 “You shall not ^xoppress your neighbor or ^yrob him. ^zThe wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning. 14 You shall not curse the deaf or ^aput a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall ^bfear your God: I am the Lord.

15 “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be ^cpartial to the poor or defer to the great, but ^din righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. 16 You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life¹ of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

17 “You shall not ^ehate your brother in your heart, but you shall ^freason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take ^gvengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but ^hyou shall love your neighbor ⁱas yourself: I am the Lord.

19 “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. ^jYou shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, ^knor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.

20 “If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; 21 but he shall bring his compensation to the Lord, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. 22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.

23 “When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden.² Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. 24 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. 25 But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the Lord your God.

26 ^l“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not ^minterpret omens or ⁿtell fortunes. 27 You shall not ^oround off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not ^pmake any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

29 “Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of ^qdepravity. 30 ^rYou shall keep my ^sSabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

31 “Do not turn to ^tmediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

32 ^u“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

33 “When a ^vstranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34 ^wYou shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall ^xlove him ^yas yourself, for ^zyou were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

35 “You shall do no wrong in judgment, ^ain measures of length or weight or quantity. 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin:³ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.”