Commandments for Holiness 1 ULT And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 ULT “Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them,‘You shall be holy, for I, Yahweh your God,{ am} holy. BSB BSB: “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
3 ULT A man, his mother and his father, you shall fear, and my sabbaths you shall keep. I{ am} Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
4 ULT You shall not turn to idols, and gods of cast metal you shall not make for yourselves. I{ am} Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
5 ULT And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it for your acceptance. BSB BSB: When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
6 ULT On the day of your sacrifice, it shall be eaten, or from tomorrow. And the remainder until the third day shall be burned with fire. 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 ULT But if, eating, it is eaten on the third day, it{ is} defiled. It will not be accepted. BSB BSB: If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.
8 ULT And the person eating it shall bear his iniquity because he profaned the holiness of Yahweh. And that person shall be cut off from his 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 ULT And in your harvesting the harvest of your land, you shall not complete the edge of your field to harvest, and the gleaning of your harvest you shall not glean. 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 ULT And your vineyard you shall not strip, and the{ fallen} grapes of your vineyard you shall not glean. For the poor and for the sojourner you shall leave them. I{ am} Yahweh your God. 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 ULT You shall not steal, and you shall not deny, and you shall not lie— a man with his fellow citizen. BSB BSB: You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
12 ULT And you shall not swear by my name to a lie and profane the name of your God. I{ am} Yahweh. BSB BSB: You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
13 ULT You shall not extort your neighbor, and you shall not rob. You shall not retain the wages of a hired{ person} with you until morning. BSB BSB: You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
14 ULT You shall not curse a deaf{ person}, and to the face of a blind{ person}, you shall not provide a hindrance. And you shall fear your God. I{ am} Yahweh. 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 ULT You shall not do injustice with judgment. You shall not lift the face of an insignificant{ person}, and you shall not honor the face of a great{ person}. In righteousness, you shall judge your fellow citizen. 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 ULT You shall not walk{ as} a slanderer among your people. You shall not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I{ am} Yahweh. 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 ULT You shall not hate your brother with your heart. Reproving, you shall reprove your fellow citizen, and you shall not lift sin on him. 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 ULT My statutes you shall keep. Your livestock— you shall not copulate{ two} different kinds. Your field— you shall not sow{ two} different kinds; and clothing of two different kinds— mixed material shall not go up on you. 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 ULT And a man, when he lies with a woman, a lying of seed, but she is a{ female} slave, a{ woman} being assigned to a man, but, being redeemed, she has not been redeemed or freedom has not been given to her, recompense shall occur. They shall not be executed because she had not been freed. 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 ULT And he shall bring his guilt to Yahweh, to the entrance of the tent of meeting— a ram of a guilt offering. 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 ULT And the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering to the face of Yahweh for his sin that he sinned. And it will be forgiven to him from his sin that he sinned. 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 ULT And when you enter into the land, and you plant every tree of food, then you shall leave uncircumcised{ as} its foreskin its fruit. Three years it shall be uncircumcised to you. It shall not be eaten. 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 ULT And in the fourth year, all of its fruit shall be holy; praise offerings to Yahweh. BSB BSB: In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
25 ULT And in the fifth year, you shall eat its fruit to increase its yield for yourselves. I{ am} Yahweh your God. 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 ULT You shall not eat with the blood. You shall not practice divination, and you shall not practice soothsaying. BSB BSB: You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27 ULT You shall not round off the corners of your head, and you shall not ruin the corners of your beard. BSB BSB: You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
28 ULT And a cut for the spirit you shall not put on your flesh, and a writing of a tattoo you shall not put on yourselves. I{ am} Yahweh. 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 ULT You shall not profane your daughter by making her practice prostitution, and the land shall not practice prostitution, or the land will fill{ itself with} depravity. BSB BSB: You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
30 ULT My sabbaths you shall keep, and my holy place you shall fear. I{ am} Yahweh. BSB BSB: You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
31 ULT You shall not turn to the mediums, and to the spiritists, you shall not seek to become unclean by them. 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 ULT From the face of gray hair, you shall rise, and you shall honor the face of an elderly{ person}. You shall fear your God. I{ am} Yahweh. BSB BSB: You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
34 ULT Like the native- born from you shall be to you the sojourner, the one sojourning with you. And you shall love him as yourself because you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. I{ am} Yahweh your God. 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 ULT You shall not do injustice with judgment, in measure, in weight, or in volume. BSB BSB: You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
36 ULT Scales of righteousness, stones of righteousness, an ephah of righteousness, and a hin of righteousness shall belong to you. I{ am} Yahweh your God, who is bringing you from the land 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 ULT And you shall keep all my statutes and all my customs, and you shall do them. I{ am} Yahweh.’” BSB BSB: You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
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