Commandments for Holiness 1 UDB Yahweh also said to Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 UDB "Speak to all the people of Israel and tell them this: 'You must be holy because Yahweh your God is holy, and he wants you to be like him. BSB BSB: “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
3 UDB Each of you must respect your father and your mother. And you must honor the Sabbath days. It is Yahweh, your God, who is commanding you to do these things. BSB BSB: Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
4 UDB Do not worship idols, which are worth nothing, or make metal statues of gods for yourselves. Yahweh is your God; it is he who is telling you this. He is the only one you must worship.' BSB BSB: Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
5 UDB Yahweh also says this: 'When you bring an offering to promise friendship with me, offer it in a way that I will accept. BSB BSB: When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
6 UDB The meat should be eaten on the day that you sacrifice it, but you may eat some of it on the next day. However, you must burn anything that remains until the third day. BSB BSB: It 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.
7 UDB For any of it to be eaten on the third day is very displeasing to me, and I will not accept that offering. BSB BSB: If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.
8 UDB I will punish anyone who eats it after the second day, because he will have not respected what I say is holy. And that person must no longer be allowed to associate with my people. BSB BSB: Whoever 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.
Love Your Neighbor (Romans 13:8–10)
9 UDB When you harvest your grain, leave the grain standing at the edges of the field and in the corners. Do not pick up the sheaves that have fallen to the ground. BSB BSB: When 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.
10 UDB And when you harvest your grapes, do not go back a second time to try to harvest some more, and do not pick up the grapes that have fallen on the ground. Leave those things for the poor people and for foreigners who are living among you. I, Yahweh your God, am commanding you those things. BSB BSB: You 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.
11 UDB Do not steal anything. Do not tell lies. Do not deceive each other. BSB BSB: You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
12 UDB Do not call upon me to punish you if you say something that you know is false. If you do this, you will dishonor me. Do not forget that I am Yahweh, your God. BSB BSB: You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
13 UDB Do not cheat anyone or steal from anyone. If you have agreed to pay your workers at the end of the day, do what you have promised. Do not keep those wages until the next day. BSB BSB: You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
14 UDB Do not curse deaf people, and do not put things in the path of blind people to cause them to stumble. I, Yahweh, am commanding this. BSB BSB: You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
15 UDB Always judge people fairly. Do not do special favors for either poor people or rich people. BSB BSB: You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
16 UDB Do not spread false rumors about other people. Do not remain silent in court if your testimony would keep an innocent person being executed. I, Yahweh, am commanding this. BSB BSB: You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
17 UDB Do not hate anyone. Instead, honestly rebuke others who ought to be rebuked, in order that you also will not be guilty. BSB BSB: You 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.
Keep My Statutes 19 UDB Obey my laws. Do not allow two different kinds of animals to mate with each other. Do not plant two different kinds of seed in the same field. Do not wear clothing made from two different kinds of material. BSB BSB: You 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.
20 UDB If a man sleeps with a slave woman who has been promised to marry some other man, but if she has not been bought by that man and is still a slave, these two people must be punished. But because she was still a slave, she and the man who slept with her must not be executed. BSB BSB: If 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.
21 UDB However, that man must bring a ram to be slaughtered at the entrance of the sacred tent area, to be an offering in order that he no longer be guilty for his sin. BSB BSB: The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.
22 UDB The priest will offer that ram to me. Then I will forgive that man for the sin which he committed. BSB BSB: The 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.
23 UDB When you enter the land that I have promised to give to you, and when you plant various kinds of fruit trees, you must not eat any of their fruit for three years. BSB BSB: When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
24 UDB In the fourth year you must set aside all of their fruit to belong to me; you must set it apart as holy, an offering to give me praise. BSB BSB: In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
25 UDB But in the fifth year, you will be permitted to eat their fruit. If you do that, your trees will produce much fruit. I, Yahweh your God, am promising that. BSB BSB: But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
26 UDB Do not eat any meat that still has the animal's blood in it. Do not consult spirits to find out what will happen in the future, and do not practice sorcery. BSB BSB: You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27 UDB Do not shave the hair at the sides of your heads as pagan people do. BSB BSB: You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
28 UDB Do not cut your bodies when you are mourning for people who have died, and do not put tattoos on your bodies. I, Yahweh your God, am commanding this. BSB BSB: You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
29 UDB Do not disgrace your daughters by forcing them to become prostitutes. If you cause them to become prostitutes, soon the land will be filled with prostitutes and all other kinds of people's wicked behavior. BSB BSB: You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
30 UDB Honor my Sabbath days and revere my sacred tent, because I am Yahweh. BSB BSB: You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
31 UDB Do not seek advice from those who try to get the spirits of dead people to give them advice. If you do that, I will no longer accept you. I am Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: You 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.
32 UDB Stand up when old people enter the room, and show that you respect them. You must also honor me, your God; that is who I am. BSB BSB: You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
34 UDB You must treat them like you treat your fellow citizens. Love them as you love yourselves, and do not forget that once when you were foreigners in Egypt you were badly mistreated by the people of Egypt. I, Yahweh your God, am commanding you to do this. BSB BSB: You 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.
35 UDB When you are measuring things, to see how long they are or how much they weigh or how many there are, BSB BSB: You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
36 UDB use correct measuring sticks and scales and weights on the scales and measuring baskets and other measuring containers. I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out of Egypt. BSB BSB: You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 UDB Obey carefully all my laws and decrees. It is I, Yahweh, who am commanding you these things.'" BSB BSB: You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
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