Leviticus 19:12-36

¹²Thou schalt not forswere in my name, nethir thou schalt defoule the name of thi God; Y am the Lord.

¹³Thou schalt not make fals chalenge to thi neiybore, nethir thou schalt oppresse hym bi violence. The werk of thin hirid man schal not dwelle at thee til the morewtid.

¹⁴Thou schalt not curse a deef man, nether thou schalt sette an hurtyng bifor a blynd man; but thou schalt drede thi Lord God, for Y am the Lord.

¹⁵Thou schalt not do that, that is wickid, nether thou schalt deme vniustli; biholde thou not the persoone of a pore man, nethir onoure thou the face of a myyti man; deme thou iustli to thi neiybore.

¹⁶Thou schalt not be a sclaunderere, nether a priuey bacbitere in the puplis; thou schalt not stonde ayens the blood of thi neiybore ; Y am the Lord.

¹⁷Thou schalt not hate thi brothir in thin herte, but repreue hym opynly, lest thou haue synne on hym.

¹⁸Thou schalt not seke veniaunce, nether thou schalt be myndeful of the wrong of thi cyteseyns; thou schalt loue thi freend as thi silf; Y am the Lord.

¹⁹Kepe ye my lawis. Thou schalt not make thi beestis to gendre with the lyuynge beestis of another kynde. Thou schalt not sowe the feeld with dyuerse sede. Thou schalt not be clothid in a cloth, which is wouun of twei thingis.

²⁰If a man slepith with a womman by fleischly knowyng of seed, which womman is an `hand maide, ye, a noble womman of kyn, and netheles is not ayenbouyt bi prijs, nethir rewardid with fredom, bothe schulen be betun, and thei schulen not die, for sche was not fre.

²¹Sotheli the man for his trespas schal offre a ram to the Lord, at the dore of the tabernacle of witnessyng;

²²and the preest schal preye for hym, and for his trespas, bifor the Lord; and the Lord schal be merciful to hym, and the synne schal be foryouun.

²³Whanne ye han entrid in to the lond of biheest, and han plauntid therynne appil trees, ye schulen do awei the firste flouris; the applis whiche tho trees bryngen forth, schulen be vncleene to you, nethir ye schulen ete of tho.

²⁴Forsothe in the fourthe yeer al the fruyt of tho trees schal be `halewid preiseful to the Lord;

²⁵forsothe in the fifthe yeer ye schulen ete fruytis, and schulen gadere applis, whiche tho trees bryngen forth; Y am youre Lord God.

²⁶Ye schulen not ete fleisch with blood. Ye schulen not make veyn diuynyng, nether ye schulen kepe dremes;

²⁷nether ye schulen clippe the heer in round, nether ye schulen schaue the beerd;

²⁸and on deed men ye schulen not kitte youre fleischis, nether ye schulen make to you ony fyguris, ether markis in youre fleisch; Y am the Lord.

²⁹Sette thou not thi douytir to do leccherie for hire, and the lond be defoulid, and be fillid with synne.

³⁰Kepe ye my sabatis, and drede ye my seyntuarie; Y `am the Lord.

³¹Bowe ye not to astronomyers, nether axe ye ony thing of fals dyuynours, that ye be defoulid bi hem; Y am youre Lord God.

³²Rise thou bifor an hoor heed, and onoure thou the persoone of an eld man, and drede thou thi Lord God; Y am the Lord.

³³If a comelyng enhabitith in youre lond, and dwellith among you, dispise ye not hym,

³⁴but be he among you as a man borun in the lond; and ye schulen loue hym as you silf, for also ye weren comelyngis in the lond of Egipt; Y am youre Lord God.

³⁵Nyle ye do ony wickid thing in doom, in reule, in weiyte, and in mesure; the balance be iust,

³⁶and the weiytis be euene, the buschel be iust, and the sextarie be euene; Y am youre Lord God, that ladde you out of the lond of Egipt.