Leviticus 19:21-37 ▼

21 He shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD to the doorway of the tent of meeting, a ram as a guilt offering.

22 The priest shall also make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin which he has committed, and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him.

23 ‘Now when you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. For three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.

24 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.

25 But in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, so that its yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your God.

26 ‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood. You shall not practice divination nor soothsaying.

27 You shall not round off the hairline of your heads, nor trim the edges of your beard.

28 You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.

29 ‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not fall into prostitution, and the land does not become full of outrageous sin.

30 You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD.

31 ‘Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

32 ‘You shall stand up in the presence of the grayheaded and honor elders, and you shall fear your God; I am the LORD.

33 ‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

34 The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

35 ‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or volume.

36 You shall have accurate balances, accurate weights, an accurate ephah, and an accurate hin; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

37 So you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them; I am the LORD.’”