Leviticus 19:16-29

¹⁶Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

¹⁷Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

¹⁸Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

¹⁹Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

²⁰If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

²¹Let him take his offering for wrongdoing to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting; let him give a male sheep as an offering for wrongdoing.

²²And the priest will take away his sin before the Lord with the sheep which is offered for his wrongdoing, and he will have forgiveness for the sin which he has done.

²³And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.

²⁴And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.

²⁵But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

²⁶Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

²⁷The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

²⁸You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

²⁹Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.