Commandments for Holiness 1 UST Then Yahweh said to Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 UST “Make sure to tell the entire people of Israel that they must be set apart, because I, Yahweh their God, am set apart from wrongdoing and impurity of the world.{ I want my people to be like me.} BSB BSB: “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
3 UST Everyone should show respect to their parents. Likewise, everyone should practice the Sabbath days and honor them. Remember: 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 UST No one should ever abandon me to worship worthless idols. Neither should anyone fashion for themselves idol statues out of cast metal. Remember: I alone am Yahweh your God! BSB BSB: Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
5 UST Whenever someone wants to sacrifice a fellowship sacrifice to me, to Yahweh, he should 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 UST The people of Israel may eat the meat that comes from such a fellowship sacrifice on the day that he offers the sacrifice and on the following day. However, on the third day after he offered the sacrifice, the person who offered the fellowship sacrifice should completely burn the remaining meat. 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 UST If anyone ever eats the meat from a fellowship sacrifice on the third day after an individual offered it, I will no longer accept whatever sacrifice the individual offered. The meat is now considered desecrated. BSB BSB: If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.
8 UST The people of Israel must hold responsible for addressing his wrongdoing whoever eats that meat because he has defiled what is set apart for my purposes alone. I, Yahweh, will make the person who does this an outcast. The people of Israel should no longer consider that person to be one of 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 UST Whenever the people of Israel gather in the harvest of their fields during harvest time, they should leave the corners of the fields unharvested. They should also refrain from picking up anything that they drop while harvesting. 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 UST Likewise, when the people of Israel harvest the grapes from their vineyards, they should not pick every single grape, nor should they go back a second time to pick up the grapes that they have accidentally dropped. They should leave the unharvested corners of their fields and the dropped grapes to provide food for the poor and the immigrants. Remember, they should do this because I am Yahweh their 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 UST Here is how the people of Israel should treat one another: No one should steal, deceive, or lie to his fellow Israelite. BSB BSB: You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
12 UST No one should call on me to be a false witness in order to acquit himself from the guilt of his wrongdoing. Doing so would dishonor me and associate the God of Israel with the impurity that comes from wrongdoing. Remember: 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 UST No one should extort the people close to him or steal anything from them. Neither should anyone withhold any wages from hired workers 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 UST No one should ever pronounce a curse against someone who is deaf or intentionally do something that would cause someone who is blind to trip and fall. Instead, the people of Israel must fearfully recognize the power and authority of their God and act accordingly. Remember: 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 UST No one should ever unjustly judge someone. This means that no judge should give special treatment to someone who is poor and seemingly insignificant; neither should they favor someone who is wealthy and seemingly important. Rather, judges should always execute judgment fairly and ethically for the people of Israel. 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 UST No one should go about spreading false rumors about people. Neither should anyone act in such a way as to oppose the life of someone who is close to him{ by giving false testimony in court that might lead to someone’ s execution}. Remember: 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 UST No one should continue hating someone who is close to him. Clearly admonish your fellow Israelite when he sins so that you will not become guilty as well. 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 UST The Israelites should be very careful to do what I have told them. They should not breed two kinds of animals that they own, nor should they sow two kinds of seeds in the same field. Likewise, they should not wear clothing that they have made from mixed fabrics. 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 UST Now, it may happen that a man has sexual relations with a woman and experiences a seminal emission. However, it may be that this woman was a female slave whose master had given her to be another man’ s wife, but the woman’ s master had not first paid for her bride price(which would secure her freedom) or outright freed her. If this is the case, then the woman’ s owner should pay a sum of money for the wrong he has done. The people of God must execute neither person who has sexual relations because she was not a free woman(and, therefore, her master had not properly given her to the man whom she was to marry) when the man had sexual relations with her. 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 UST However, the man who had sexual relations with the slave woman should bring the required penalty for his guilt to me, to Yahweh, at the entrance of the sacred tent. Specifically, he should offer a goat as a restoring sacrifice. 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 UST When this happens, the priest will offer the goat as a restoring sacrifice in my presence, so that I, Yahweh, will remove the guilt that the man acquired because of the wrongdoing that he has done. Then I, Yahweh, will forgive the man of the wrongdoing he has done. 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 UST When the people of Israel enter the land that I have promised to give to them, they should plant various kinds of trees that produce fruit. However, for three years, the people of Israel should consider the fruit of these trees to be forbidden, as if they were a person’ s uncircumcised foreskin. During this time, no one should eat this fruit. 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 UST The next year, all the fruit of the trees the people of Israel have planted should be considered set apart for me. The people of Israel should offer them as special offerings of praise to me, to Yahweh. BSB BSB: In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
25 UST But in the fifth year, the people of Israel may eat the fruit of the trees that they have planted, so that their yield of fruit increases every year. Remember: 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 UST No one should eat any meat that still has the animal’ s blood in it. Also, no one should use magic to try to know or control the future. BSB BSB: You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27 UST { The people of Israel should not mourn for their dead as the people of the surrounding nations do.} They should not shave the hairs of their heads, nor should they trim the corners of their beads. BSB BSB: You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
28 UST The people of Israel should not cut their bodies when they mourn for people who have died. Likewise, they should not tattoo themselves. Remember: 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 UST The people of Israel should never disgrace the value of their daughters by forcing them to become prostitutes. If they do so, soon prostitutes will be so numerous that it will be as if the land itself is a prostitute. The land will be filled with all other kinds of depraved 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 UST Honor my sacred festivals by celebrating them. Honor the place where you worship me. Remember: I am Yahweh. BSB BSB: You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
31 UST No one should ever abandon me by inquiring of someone who speaks to the dead, nor should anyone seek the advice of someone who inquires of dead family members. Doing so will only make the people of Israel impure. Remember: 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 UST The people of Israel should respect elderly people by standing up when they enter the room. They should also honor the elderly. The people of Israel must fearfully recognize the power and authority of their God and act accordingly. Remember, 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 UST The people of Israel must treat immigrants who live with them like they treat the native- born person. Indeed, the people of Israel should act lovingly toward them, just as if they were their own bodies. This is because the people of Israel were once immigrants in Egypt. Remember, 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 UST No one should ever unjustly judge someone with regards to how long something is, how much it weighs, or its volume. BSB BSB: You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
36 UST This is because the people of Israel should always be using honest measuring sticks, weights on the scales, and measuring baskets. Remember: I am Yahweh your God, who is bringing the people of Israel 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 UST The people of Israel should always be careful to do everything that I have told them to do and should obey my customs. Remember, 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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