Chapter 19

Diverse Moral, Ceremonial, and Judicial precepts are briefly recited.

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   Our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

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   Speak to all the assembly of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.

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   Let every one fear his father, and mother. Keep my Sabbaths. I the Lord your God.

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   Turn not yourselves to idols, neither make you to yourselves molten gods. I the Lord your God.

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   If ye immolate an host of pacifics to the Lord, that it may be placable,

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   that day wherein it is immolated, shall you eat it, and the next day: and whatsoever shall be left until the third day, you shall burn with fire.

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   If after two days any man eat thereof, he shall be profane, and guilty of impiety:

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   and shall bear his iniquity, because he hath polluted the holy of the Lord, and that soul shall perish out of his people.

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   And when thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shalt not shear the face of the earth to the very ground: neither shalt thou gather the ears that remain.

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    Neither in thy vineyard shalt thou gather the clusters and grapes that fall down, but shall leave them to the poor, and the strangers to take. I the Lord your God.

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    You shall not commit theft. You shall not lie, neither shall any man deceive his neighbour.

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    Thou shalt not forswear thyself in my name, nor pollute the name of thy God. I the Lord.

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    Thou shalt not calumniate thy neighbour, nor oppress him by violence. The work of thy hireling shall not abide with thee until morning.

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    Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf man, nor put a stumbling block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.

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    Thou shalt not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly. Consider not the person of a poor man, neither honour thou the countenance of him that is mighty. Judge justly to thy neighbour.

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    Thou shalt not be a criminator, nor a whisperer among the people. Thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy neighbour. I the Lord.

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    Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, but control him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

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    Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I the Lord.

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    Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with the beasts of another kind. Thy field thou shalt not sow with diverse seed. A garment that is woven of two sorts, thou shalt not put on.

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    If a man lie with a woman by carnal copulation, that is a bondwoman also marriable, & yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free, both shall be beaten, and they shall not die, because she was not free.

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    And for his offence he shall offer to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of testimony a ram:

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    and the Priest shall pray for him, and for his sin before the Lord, and he shall become propitious to him again, and the sin shall be forgiven.

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    When you shall be entered into the land, and have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away the prepuces of them: the fruits that come forth shall be unclean to you, neither shall you eat of them.

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    But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified, laudable to the Lord.

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    And the fifth year you shall eat the fruits, gathering the offspring that they bring forth. I the Lord your God.

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    You shall not eat with blood. You shall not divine, nor observe dreams.

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    Neither shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.

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    And for the dead you shall not cut your flesh, neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I the Lord.

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    Make not thy daughter a common strumpet, lest the land be contamined and filled with wickedness.

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    Keep ye my Sabbaths, & fear my Sanctuary. I the Lord.

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    Decline not to magicians, neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be polluted by them. I the Lord your God.

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    Before the hoar head rise up, and honour the person of an old man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.

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    If a stranger dwell in your land, and abide among you, do not upbraid him:

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    but let him be among you as the same country man: and you shall love him as yourselves: for you also have been strangers in the Land of Aegypt. I the Lord your God.

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    Do not any unjust thing in judgment, in rule, in weight, or measure.

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    Let the balance be just, and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal. I the Lord your God, that brought you out of the Land of Aegypt.

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    Keep all my precepts, and all my judgements, and do them. I the Lord.