30AND YOU WILL KEEP <OBJ.> DUTY MY TO NOT TO DO ANY OF [THE] CUSTOMS OF THE ABOMINATIONS WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN DONE <TO> BEFORE YOU AND NOT YOU WILL MAKE YOURSELVES UNCLEAN BY <THE> THEM I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR 30You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
2SPEAK TO ALL [THE] CONGREGATION OF [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AND YOU WILL SAY TO THEM HOLY YOU WILL BE FOR [AM] HOLY I YAHWEH GOD YOUR 2“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.*NoteCloseCited in 1 Peter 1:16
3ANYONE MOTHER HIS AND FATHER HIS YOU WILL FEAR AND <OBJ.> SABBATHS MY YOU WILL KEEP I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR 3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
4MAY NOT YOU TURN TO <THE> WORTHLESS IDOLS AND GODS OF MOLTEN METAL NOT YOU MUST MAKE FOR <THE> YOURSELVES I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR 4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
5AND IF YOU WILL SACRIFICE A SACRIFICE OF PEACE OFFERING<S> TO YAHWEH FOR ACCEPTANCE YOUR YOU WILL SACRIFICE IT 5When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
6ON [THE] DAY OF SACRIFICE YOUR IT WILL BE EATEN AND FROM [THE] NEXT DAY AND <THE> [WHAT] REMAINS UNTIL [THE] DAY <THE> THIRD WITH <THE> FIRE IT WILL BE BURNED 6It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the next day; but what remains on the third day must be burned up.
7AND IF EVER <TO BE EATEN> IT WILL BE EATEN ON THE DAY <THE> THIRD [IS] UNCLEAN MEAT IT NOT IT WILL BE ACCEPTED 7If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.
8AND [THOSE WHO] EAT IT INIQUITY HIS HE WILL BEAR FOR <OBJ.> [THE] HOLY THING OF YAHWEH HE HAS PROFANED AND IT WILL BE CUT OFF THE PERSON <THE> THAT FROM KINSPEOPLE<S> ITS 8Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.
9AND WHEN HARVEST YOU <OBJ.> [THE] HARVEST OF LAND YOUR NOT YOU WILL FINISH [THE] SIDE OF FIELD YOUR TO HARVEST AND [THE] REMNANT OF HARVEST YOUR NOT YOU WILL GATHER Love Your Neighbor (Romans 13:8–10) 9When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10AND VINEYARD YOUR NOT YOU WILL GLEAN AND [THE] FALLEN GRAPE[S] OF VINEYARD YOUR NOT YOU WILL GATHER FOR THE POOR [PERSON] AND FOR THE SOJOURNER YOU WILL LEAVE <OBJ.> THEM I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR 10You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
11NOT YOU WILL STEAL AND NOT YOU WILL DECEIVE AND NOT YOU WILL DEAL FALSELY ANYONE WITH FELLOW CITIZEN HIS 11You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
12AND NOT YOU WILL SWEAR AN OATH BY NAME MY TO <THE> FALSEHOOD AND YOU WILL PROFANE <OBJ.> [THE] NAME OF GOD YOUR I [AM] YAHWEH 12You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
13NOT YOU WILL OPPRESS <OBJ.> NEIGHBOR YOUR AND NOT YOU WILL ROB [HIM] NOT IT WILL REMAIN OVERNIGHT [THE] WAGE[S] OF A HIRED LABORER WITH YOU UNTIL MORNING 13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
14NOT YOU WILL CURSE A DEAF [PERSON] AND <TO> BEFORE A BLIND [PERSON] NOT YOU WILL PUT A STUMBLING BLOCK AND YOU WILL FEAR FROM GOD YOUR I [AM] YAHWEH 14You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
15NOT YOU WILL DO INJUSTICE IN <THE> JUDGMENT NOT YOU WILL LIFT UP [THE] FACE OF A POOR [PERSON] AND NOT YOU WILL HONOR [THE] FACE OF A GREAT [PERSON] IN RIGHTEOUSNESS YOU WILL JUDGE FELLOW CITIZEN YOUR 15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
16NOT YOU WILL GO ABOUT A SLANDERER AMONG KINSPEOPLE<S> YOUR NOT YOU WILL STAND ON [THE] BLOOD OF NEIGHBOR YOUR I [AM] YAHWEH 16You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life*NoteCloseLiterally blood of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
17NOT YOU WILL HATE <OBJ.> BROTHER YOUR IN HEART YOUR CERTAINLY <TO REBUKE> YOU WILL REBUKE <OBJ.> FELLOW CITIZEN YOUR AND NOT YOU WILL BEAR ON HIM SIN 17You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.
18NOT YOU WILL AVENGE YOURSELF AND NOT YOU WILL KEEP <OBJ.> [THE] SONS OF PEOPLE YOUR AND YOU WILL LOVE <TO> NEIGHBOR YOUR LIKE YOURSELF I [AM] YAHWEH 18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.*NoteCloseCited in Matthew 5:43, Matthew 19:19, Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:31, Luke 10:27, Romans 13:9, Galatians 5:14, and James 2:8 I am the LORD.
19<OBJ.> STATUTES MY YOU WILL KEEP LIVESTOCK YOUR NOT YOU WILL MAKE LIE TWO KINDS FIELD YOUR NOT YOU WILL SOW TWO KINDS AND CLOTHING TWO KINDS MIXED STUFF NOT IT WILL GO UP ON YOU Keep My Statutes 19You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
20AND A MAN IF HE WILL LIE WITH <OBJ.> A WOMAN A LAYING OF SEED AND SHE [IS] A FEMALE SLAVE INTENDED FOR A MAN AND CERTAINLY <TO BE RELEASED> NOT SHE HAD BEEN RELEASED OR FREEDOM NOT IT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO <THE> HER COMPENSATION IT WILL BE NOT THEY WILL BE PUT TO DEATH FOR NOT SHE HAD BEEN GIVEN FREEDOM 20If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
21AND HE WILL BRING <OBJ.> GUILT OFFERING HIS TO YAHWEH TO [THE] ENTRANCE OF [THE] TENT OF MEETING A RAM OF A GUILT OFFERING 21The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.
22AND HE WILL MAKE ATONEMENT ON HIM THE PRIEST BY [THE] RAM OF THE GUILT OFFERING <TO> BEFORE YAHWEH ON SIN HIS WHICH HE HAS SINNED AND IT WILL BE FORGIVEN TO <THE> HIM FROM SIN HIS WHICH HE HAS SINNED 22The priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.
23AND IF YOU WILL GO INTO THE LAND AND YOU WILL PLANT EVERY TREE OF FOOD AND YOU WILL REGARD AS UNCIRCUMCISED FORESKIN ITS <OBJ.> FRUIT ITS THREE YEARS IT WILL BE TO <THE> YOU UNCIRCUMCISED NOT IT WILL BE EATEN 23When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden.*NoteCloseHebrew as uncircumcised; twice in this verse For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
24AND IN THE YEAR <THE> FOURTH IT WILL BE ALL FRUIT ITS A HOLY THING PRAISE OFFERINGS TO YAHWEH 24In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
25AND IN THE YEAR <THE> FIFTH YOU WILL EAT <OBJ.> FRUIT ITS TO ADD TO <THE> YOU PRODUCE ITS I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR 25But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
26NOT YOU MUST EAT WITH THE BLOOD NOT YOU WILL PRACTICE DIVINATION AND NOT YOU WILL PRACTICE SOOTHSAYING 26You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27NOT YOU WILL ROUND OFF [THE] SIDE OF HEAD YOUR AND NOT YOU WILL TRIM <OBJ.> [THE] SIDE OF BEARD YOUR 27You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
28AND CUT[S] FOR A CORPSE NOT YOU WILL MAKE IN FLESH YOUR AND [THE] INSCRIPTION OF AN INCISION NOT YOU WILL MAKE IN <THE> YOURSELVES I [AM] YAHWEH 28You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
29MAY NOT YOU PROFANE <OBJ.> DAUGHTER YOUR BY MAKING PROSTITUTE [HERSELF] HER AND NOT IT WILL PROSTITUTE ITSELF THE LAND AND IT WILL BE FULL THE LAND WICKEDNESS 29You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
30<OBJ.> SABBATHS MY YOU WILL KEEP AND SANCTUARY MY YOU WILL FEAR I [AM] YAHWEH 30You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
31MAY NOT YOU TURN TO THE NECROMANCERS AND TO THE SOOTHSAYERS MAY NOT YOU SEEK [THEM] TO BECOME UNCLEAN BY <THE> THEM I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR 31You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
32FROM BEFORE GRAY HAIR YOU WILL ARISE AND YOU WILL HONOR [THE] FACE AN OLD [PERSON] AND YOU WILL FEAR FROM GOD YOUR I [AM] YAHWEH 32You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
33AND IF HE WILL SOJOURN WITH YOU A SOJOURNER IN LAND YOUR NOT YOU WILL MALTREAT <OBJ.> HIM 33When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
34LIKE [THE] NATIVE-BORN FROM <THE> YOU HE WILL BE TO <THE> YOU THE SOJOURNER WHO SOJOURNS WITH YOU AND YOU WILL LOVE <TO> <THE> HIM LIKE YOURSELF FOR SOJOURNERS YOU WERE IN [THE] LAND OF EGYPT I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR 34You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
35NOT YOU WILL DO INJUSTICE IN <THE> JUDGMENT IN <THE> MEASUREMENT IN <THE> WEIGHT AND IN <THE> VOLUME 35You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
36BALANCES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WEIGHTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AN EPHAH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND A HIN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IT WILL BELONG TO <THE> YOU I [AM] YAHWEH GOD YOUR WHO I BROUGHT OUT <OBJ.> YOU FROM [THE] LAND OF EGYPT 36You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah,*NoteCloseAn ephah is a dry measure of approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters. and an honest hin.*NoteCloseA hin is a liquid measure of approximately 0.97 gallons or 3.67 liters. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37AND YOU WILL KEEP <OBJ.> ALL STATUTES MY AND <OBJ.> ALL JUDGMENTS MY AND YOU WILL DO <OBJ.> THEM I [AM] YAHWEH 37You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”