Leviticus 19:23-37 ▼

23 “When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden. It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

24 In the fourth year all its fruit is to be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.

25 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you; I am the LORD your God.

26 “You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or witchcraft.

27 You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

28 You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the LORD.

29 “Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

30 Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the LORD.

31 “Do not turn to mediums or consult spiritists, or you will be defiled by them; I am the LORD your God.

32 “You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old. Fear your God; I am the LORD.

33 “When an alien resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

34 You will regard the alien who resides with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.

35 “Do not be unfair in measurements of length, weight, or volume.

36 You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

37 Keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them; I am the LORD.”