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Leviticus 19 American Standard Version (1901)

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1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy; for I Jehovah your God am holy. 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God. 4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God. 5 And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted. 6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire. 7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be accepted: 8 but every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the holy thing of Jehovah: and that soul shall be cut off from his people. 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God. 11 Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another. 12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah. 13 Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah. 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor. 16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am Jehovah. 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. 18 Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah. 19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together. 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; they shall be punished; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 21 And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass-offering. 22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before Jehovah for his sin which he hath sinned: and the sin which he hath sinned shall be forgiven him. 23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as their uncircumcision: three years shall they be as uncircumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten. 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise unto Jehovah. 25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Jehovah your God. 26 Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah. 29 Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. 30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah. 31 Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor unto the wizards; seek them not out, to be defiled by them: I am Jehovah your God. 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah. 33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong. 34 The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God. 35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them: I am Jehovah.

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  • Moses

    Deliverer and lawgiver

    Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34

Cross references (36)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Leviticus 11:44–45; Leviticus 20:7; 1 Peter 1:15–16; 2 Corinthians 6:14–16; Matthew 5:48
  2. 3 Exodus 20:12; Exodus 20:8; Ephesians 6:1–3; Hebrews 12:9; Proverbs 30:17
  3. 4 Leviticus 26:1; Exodus 34:17; Psalm 115:4–7; Exodus 20:23; Deuteronomy 27:15
  4. 5 Leviticus 22:19; Leviticus 22:29; Leviticus 7:16; Leviticus 1:3; Ephesians 2:13–14
  5. 6 Leviticus 7:11–17
  6. 7 Leviticus 7:18–21; Leviticus 22:25; Jeremiah 16:18; Leviticus 22:23; Isaiah 66:3
  7. 8 Leviticus 22:15; Leviticus 5:1
  8. 9 Leviticus 23:22; Deuteronomy 24:19–22; Ruth 2:15; Ruth 2:2; Leviticus 23:10
  9. 10 Isaiah 17:6; Leviticus 25:6; Isaiah 24:13; Judges 8:2; Micah 7:1
  10. 11 Colossians 3:9; Psalm 101:7; Exodus 20:15; Ephesians 4:25; Zechariah 5:3–4
  11. 12 Exodus 20:7; Deuteronomy 5:11; Leviticus 18:21; Leviticus 6:3; James 5:12
  12. 13 James 5:4; Malachi 3:5; Deuteronomy 24:14–15; Jeremiah 22:13; Proverbs 20:10
  13. 14 Deuteronomy 27:18; Leviticus 19:32; 1 Peter 2:17; Leviticus 25:17; Romans 14:13
  14. 15 Deuteronomy 1:17; Deuteronomy 27:19; Proverbs 24:23; Exodus 23:6–8; Exodus 23:2–3
  15. 16 Exodus 23:1; Exodus 23:7; Proverbs 20:19; Proverbs 11:13; Ezekiel 22:9
  16. 17 1 John 2:9; Luke 17:3; 1 John 2:11; Proverbs 27:5–6; 1 John 3:12–15
  17. 18 Matthew 22:39–40; Romans 13:9; Mark 12:31–34; Luke 10:27–37; Galatians 5:14
  18. 19 2 Corinthians 6:14–17; Deuteronomy 22:9–11; Matthew 9:16–17; Galatians 3:9–11; 2 Samuel 13:29
  19. 20 Deuteronomy 22:23–24; Exodus 21:20–21
  20. 21 Leviticus 6:6–7; Leviticus 5:1–6; Leviticus 5:15
  21. 22 Leviticus 4:26; Leviticus 4:20
  22. 23 Leviticus 22:27; Acts 7:51; Jeremiah 9:25–26; Jeremiah 6:10; Leviticus 14:34
  23. 24 Deuteronomy 18:4; Proverbs 3:9; Numbers 18:12–13; Deuteronomy 14:28–29; Deuteronomy 12:17–18
  24. 25 Haggai 1:9–11; Leviticus 26:3–4; Haggai 1:4–6; Ecclesiastes 11:1–2; Haggai 2:18–19
  25. 26 Deuteronomy 18:10–14; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Deuteronomy 12:23; 2 Kings 21:6
  26. 27 Leviticus 21:5; Deuteronomy 14:1; Ezekiel 44:20; Jeremiah 48:37; Isaiah 15:2
  27. 28 Deuteronomy 14:1; 1 Kings 18:28; Leviticus 21:5; Leviticus 21:1; Jeremiah 16:6
  28. 29 Deuteronomy 23:17–18; 1 Corinthians 6:15; Leviticus 21:7; Hosea 4:12–14
  29. 30 Leviticus 26:2; Leviticus 19:3; Ecclesiastes 5:1; Exodus 20:8; Psalm 89:7
  30. 31 Isaiah 8:19; Leviticus 20:6–7; Leviticus 20:27; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Deuteronomy 18:10–14
  31. 32 1 Timothy 5:1; Proverbs 16:31; Lamentations 5:12; Proverbs 20:29; Leviticus 19:14
  32. 33 Exodus 22:21; Exodus 23:9; Jeremiah 7:6; Deuteronomy 24:14; Malachi 3:5
  33. 34 Deuteronomy 10:19; Leviticus 19:18; Exodus 12:48–49; Matthew 5:43
  34. 35 Deuteronomy 25:15; Deuteronomy 25:13; Proverbs 16:11; Micah 6:1; Leviticus 19:15
  35. 36 Proverbs 11:1; Exodus 20:2; Proverbs 20:10; Deuteronomy 25:13–15
  36. 37 Deuteronomy 8:1; Leviticus 18:4–5; Deuteronomy 5:1; 1 John 3:22–23; Psalm 119:34

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 19:18 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapters XIII–XIII)

    "A new commandment," He says, "I give unto you, that ye love one another." But was not this already commanded in the ancient law of God, where it is written, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself"? Why, then, is it called a new one by the Lord, when it is proved to be so old?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)