Leviticus 19

Leviticus 19

Leviticus 19:1 And Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Leviticus 19:2 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, you will be sacred, because I Yahveh your God am sacred.

Leviticus 19:3 Every one of you will revere his mother and his father, and you will keep my Sabbaths: I am Yahveh your God.

Leviticus 19:4 You will not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am Yahveh your God.

Leviticus 19:5 “When you offer a sacrifice for healthy relationships to Yahveh, you will offer it so that you may be accepted.

Leviticus 19:6 It will be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and anything left over until the third day will be burned up with fire.

Leviticus 19:7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is tainted; it will not be accepted,

Leviticus 19:8 and everyone who eats it will be responsible for his violation, because he has profaned what is sacred to Yahveh, and that throat will be eliminated from his people.

Leviticus 19:9 “When you reap the harvest of your land, you will not reap your field right up to its edge, neither will you gather the gleanings after your harvest.

Leviticus 19:10 And you will not strip your vineyard bare, neither will you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You will leave them for the poor and for the temporary resident: I am Yahveh your God.

Leviticus 19:11 “You will not steal; you will not deal falsely; you will not lie a man against his associate.

Leviticus 19:12 You will not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 19:13 “You will not exploit your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker will not remain with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 19:14 You will not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block at the face of the blind, but you will fear your God: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 19:15 “You will do no injustice in judgment. You will not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but you will judge your associate ethically.

Leviticus 19:16 You will not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you will not stand up against the blood of your neighbor: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 19:17 “You will not hate your brother in your heart, but you will reason frankly with your associate, or you will be responsible for a failure because of him.

Leviticus 19:18 You will not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you will love your neighbor as yourself: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 19:19 “You will keep my prescriptions. You will not let your animals breed with a different kind. You will not plant your field with two kinds of seed, nor will you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.

Leviticus 19:20 “If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction will be made. They will not be put to death, because she was not free;

Leviticus 19:21 but he will bring his reparation to Yahveh, to the entrance of the conference tent, a ram for a reparation offering.

Leviticus 19:22 And the priest will provide reconciliation for him with the ram of the reparation offering to Yahveh’s face for his failure, and he will be forgiven for the failure.

Leviticus 19:23 “When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you will regard its fruit as if it had a foreskin. Three years it will be uncircumcised to you; it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 19:24 And in the fourth year all its fruit will be sacred, an offering of praise to Yahveh.

Leviticus 19:25 But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am Yahveh your God.

Leviticus 19:26 “You will not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You will not interpret omens or tell fortunes.

Leviticus 19:27 You will not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.

Leviticus 19:28 You will not make any throat cuts on your skin or tattoo yourselves: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 19:29 “Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, or else the land will fall into prostitution and the land will become full of immorality.

Leviticus 19:30 You will keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 19:31 “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves contaminated by them: I am Yahveh your God.

Leviticus 19:32 “You will stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you will fear your God: I am Yahveh.

Leviticus 19:33 “When a foreign guest is a temporary resident with you in your land, you will not do him wrong.

Leviticus 19:34 You will treat the foreign guest who is a temporary resident with you as the native among you, and you will love him as yourself, because you were foreign guests in the land of Egypt: I am Yahveh your God.

Leviticus 19:35 “You will do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.

Leviticus 19:36 You will have ethical balances, ethical weights, an ethical ephah, and an ethical hin: I am Yahveh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:37 And you will observe all my prescriptions and all my judgments and do them: I am Yahveh.”

Leviticus 19 quotes:

“The Jesus who put Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18 together and gave them great importance was the same Jesus who loved God with all his heart, soul, mind. and strength and who loved his neighbor as himself.”

Patrick, M. W. (1984). The love commandment : how to find its meaning for today. CBP Press. p. 31.

“The whole thrust of the Leviticus 19:2-18 passage is to remind Israel that they are called to be a holy people, to reflect in their being and doing the very image of God who is holy and who created them in the first place.”

Foskett, M. F. (2004). Moral teachings of Jesus. Abingdon Press. p. 45.

“Leviticus 19 introduces in the Scriptures what we call the Golden Rule: love your neighbor as yourself (v. 18). This chapter also mandates care for the poor by leaving a portion of one’s crops behind at harvest time (vv. 9-10), and honesty in keeping with the Ten Commandments (vv. 11-12). Rules of sexual conduct serve to maintain integrity in the family and social harmony in the community. Blood and its shedding are closely regulated because life is in the blood (17:11). All the sacrifices, holy days, dietary laws, rules of sexual relations and other bodily contacts, and charity to the poor serve to draw one closer to God. All these instructions are rooted in God’s covenant as human obligation: “These are the commandments which the Lord gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites” (27:34). This intentionality colors all that we read in Leviticus.”

Owens, J. E. (2011). Leviticus. Liturgical Press. p. 9.