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title: Leviticus 19
slug: kjv/leviticus-19
createdAt: 2024-08-05T20:14:18.867Z
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**1 **And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

**2 **Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God *am* holy. **3 **Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I *am* the LORD your God. **4 **Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I *am* the LORD your God.

**5 **And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will. **6 **It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire. **7 **And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it *is* abominable; it shall not be accepted. **8 **Therefore *every one* that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

**9 **And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. **10 **And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather *every* grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I *am* the LORD your God.

**11 **Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. **12 **And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I *am* the LORD.

**13 **Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob *him*: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. **14 **Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I *am* the LORD.

**15 **Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: *but* in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. **16 **Thou shalt not go up and down *as* a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I *am* the LORD.

**17 **Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. **18 **Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I *am* the LORD.

**19 **Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

**20 **And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that *is* a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. **21 **And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, *even* a ram for a trespass offering. **22 **And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

**23 **And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. **24 **But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD *withal*. **25 **And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I *am* the LORD your God.

**26 **Ye shall not eat *any thing* with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. **27 **Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. **28 **Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I *am* the LORD.

**29 **Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. **30 **Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I *am* the LORD.

**31 **Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I *am* the LORD your God.

**32 **Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I *am* the LORD.

**33 **And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. **34 ***But* the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I *am* the LORD your God.

**35 **Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. **36 **Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I *am* the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. **37 **Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I *am* the LORD.