Leviticus 19:20-37 ▼

20 And when a man lies with a woman with seed [from] intercourse, and she [is] a maidservant, betrothed to a man, and not really ransomed, or freedom has not been given to her, there is an investigation; they are not put to death, for she [is] not free.

21 And he has brought in his guilt-offering to YHWH, to the opening of the Tent of Meeting, a ram [for] a guilt-offering,

22 and the priest has made atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering before YHWH, for his sin which he has sinned, and it has been forgiven him because of his sin which he has sinned.

23 And when you come into the land and have planted all [kinds] of trees [for] food, then you have reckoned its fruit as uncircumcised, it is uncircumcised to you [for] three years, it is not eaten,

24 and in the fourth year all its fruit is holy—praises for YHWH.

25 And in the fifth year you eat its fruit—to add to you its increase; I [am] your God YHWH.

26 You do not eat with the blood. You do not enchant, nor observe clouds.

27 You do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of your beard.

28 And you do not put a cutting for the soul in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, you do not put on yourself; I [am] YHWH.

29 You do not defile your daughter to cause her to go whoring, that the land does not go whoring, and the land has been full of wickedness.

30 You keep My Sabbaths and you revere My sanctuary; I [am] YHWH.

31 You do not turn to those having familiar spirits, and you do not seek for wizards, to become unclean by them; I [am] your God YHWH.

32 You rise up at the presence of grey hairs, and you have honored the presence of an old man, and have been afraid of your God; I [am] YHWH.

33 And when a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you do not oppress him;

34 the sojourner who is sojourning with you is to you as a native among you, and you have had love for him as for yourself, for you have been sojourners in the land of Egypt; I [am] your God YHWH.

35 You do not do perversity in the judgment, in the measure, in the weight, and in the liquid measure;

36 you have righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin; I [am] your God YHWH, who has brought you out from the land of Egypt;

37 and you have observed all my statutes, and all my judgments, and have done them; I [am] YHWH.”