1 GLT And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 GLT “Speak to all the assembly of the sons of Israel and say to them,‘You must be set apart ones, for I, Yahweh your God, am set apart. BSB BSB: “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
3 GLT A man must revere his mother and his father, and you must keep my sabbaths. 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 GLT Do not turn to worthless idols, and do not make for yourselves gods out of metal. 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 GLT And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you must sacrifice it for your acceptance. BSB BSB: When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
6 GLT On the day of your sacrifice it must be eaten, or on the next day, and what is left until the third day must be burned up in the 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 GLT And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is unclean meat. 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 GLT And the one who eats it must carry his iniquity because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that person must 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.
9 GLT And when you harvest the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the edge of your field, and you must not gather the gleaning of your harvest. 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 GLT And you must not glean your vineyard, and you must not gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and for the sojourner. 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 GLT You must not steal and you must not deceive and you must not lie, a man with his fellow citizen. BSB BSB: You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
12 GLT And you must not swear by my name falsely 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 GLT You must not oppress your neighbor and you must not rob. The wages of a hired worker must not stay all night 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 GLT You must not curse the deaf and you must not put a stumbling block before the face of the blind. And you must 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 GLT You must not do injustice in judgment. You must not lift up the face of the poor, and you must not give preference to the face of the great. In justice you must judge your neighbor. 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 GLT You must not walk around as a slanderer among your people. You must 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 GLT You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely rebuke your fellow citizen and not incur sin because of 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.
19 GLT You must keep my statutes. You must not breed together your livestock of two different kinds. Your field you must not sow with two different kinds of seed, and a garment of two different kinds of material you must not put 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 GLT And if a man lies with a woman so there is emission of seed and she is a slave who is promised to a man, and she has not been ransomed at all or freedom has not been given to her, there must be punishment. They must not be put to death because she was not free. 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 GLT And he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh to the entrance of the tent of meeting— a ram as 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 GLT And the priest will make atonement for him with the ram for the guilt offering before the face of Yahweh, for the sin that he has sinned. And it will be forgiven him for his sin which he has 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 GLT And when you come into the land and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you must regard its fruit as being uncircumcised in its foreskin. Three years it will be uncircumcised for you. It must 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 GLT And in the fourth year all of its fruit will be holy, offerings of praise to Yahweh. BSB BSB: In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
25 GLT And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, to increase its yield for you. 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 GLT You must not eat anything with the blood. You must not practice divination, and you must not interpret signs. BSB BSB: You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27 GLT You must not round off the corners of your heads and you must not shave off the edge 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 GLT And you must not make a cut on your body for the dead and you must not make on yourselves a mark of a tattoo. 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 GLT Do not profane your daughter by causing her to be a prostitute, and the land will not fall to prostitution and the land become full of wickedness. BSB BSB: You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
30 GLT My sabbaths you must keep and my holy place you must fear. I am Yahweh. BSB BSB: You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
31 GLT Do not turn to the necromancers or to the soothsayers. Do 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 GLT From the face of the gray- haired person you must rise and you must show respect in the face of an old person. You must 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 GLT Like the native- born among you must be to you the sojourner who sojourns with you. And you must 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 GLT You must not do injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, in weight, or in quantity. BSB BSB: You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
36 GLT Just scales, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin you must have. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out 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 GLT And you must keep all my statutes and all my laws, and you must 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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