Lev_18:1-30; Lev_19:1-37; Lev_20:1-27; Lev_21:1-24
neither the native born nor the sojourners who sojourn amongyou;-for all these abominations have been done by the men of the land who havebeen before you, and the land hath been polluted ;-that the land vomityou not out when ye defile it; as it will have cast out the people who werebefore you. For whoso committeth any of these abominations, the souls that dothem shall be destroyed from among their people. And you shall observe thekeeping of My word, that you do not (according to) the abominable usages whichhave been done before You, nor be corrupted by them. I am the Lord your God.
SECTIONXXX.
KEDOSHEIT.
XIX. AND the Lordspake with Mosheh, saying: Speak with all the congregation of the sons ofIsrael and say to them, You shall be holy; for I, the Lord your God, am holy. Aman shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep the day of MySabbath: I am the Lord your God. Turn not after idols, nor make molten things(for worship): I am the Lord your God. And when you offer the sacrifice ofconsecrated things before the Lord, make the sacrifice thereof with your ownfree will. On the day that it is sacrificed it may be eaten, and on thefollowing day; but that which remaineth on the third day shall be burned withfire. If indeed it be eaten on the third day, it (the oblation) is rejected,and shall not be accepted. And whoever eateth it shall bear his guilt; for hehath profaned that which was consecrated, and that man shall destroyed from hispeople. And when you reap the harvest of yourland, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, and the gleanings ofthy harvest thou shalt not gather. Neither in thy vineyard shalt thou(entirely) ingather, nor collect the remainder of thy vineyard; thou shaltleave them for the poor, and for the stranger: I am the Lord thy God. You shallnot steal, nor prevaricate, nor be false, a man with his neighbour. Neitherswear by My Name unto falsehood, nor profane the Name of thy God: I am theLord.
Thoushalt not overbear thy neighbour, nor be coercive: the hire of the hirelingshall not abide with thee till the morning. Thou shalt not curse him who cannothear, nor put a stumblingblock before him who cannot see, but shalt fear thyGod: I am the Lord. You shall not deal falsely in judgment, nor accept the faceof the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in truthfulness shalt thou judgethy neighbour. Thou shalt not make false accusations against thy people,neither stand against thy neighbour’s blood: I am the Lord. Thou shalt not hatethy brother in thy heart: reproving, reprove thou thy neighbour, and contractnot sin his account. Thou shalt not be revengeful, nor keep enmity against thechildren of thy people, but love thy neighbour as thyseIf. I am the Lord.
You shall observe Mystatutes. Thy cattle thou shalt not make to gender with various kinds, nor sowthy field with various kinds, nor let a garment of a mixture of woollen andlinen come upon thee. And if a man lie carnally with a woman, and she be ahandmaid betrothed unto (another) man, and with redemption of money notredeemed, nor having freedom given to her by an instrument of writing, thestripe shall be upon her; they shall not be put to death, for she was not free.[1] <l >But he shall bring his trespass offering before the Lord, at the door of thetabernacle of ordinance, a ram for a trespass offering. And the priest shallmake atonement with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for thesin that he hath sinned, that the sin he hath sinned may be forgiven him. And when you haveentered upon the land, and have planted any (kind) of tree for eating, thefruit of it shall be put away (from you); three years shall it be set aside tobe destroyed; it shall not be eaten. But in the fourth year all the fruit shallbe consecrated for thanksgiving before the Lord; and in the fifth year youshall eat the fruit of it, that the fruit may be added (increased) to you. I amthe Lord your God.
You shall not eatanything with the blood. You shall not use enchantments,[2] <l > noraugury by the clouds. You shall not shave the hair on your head in a circle,[3] <l >nor destroy the hair of thy beard, nor make a cutting for the dead in thyflesh; nor imprint signatures upon you: I am the Lord. Thou shalt not profanethy daughter to make her to become a fornicatress, lest the land becomewhorish, and the land be filled with the ways of wickedness. The days ofSabbaths, which are Mine, observe ye, and hold in reverence the house of Mysanctuary. I am the Lord. Turn not after deceivers, nor inquire by diviners to polluteyourselves with them: I am the Lord your God.
Thou shalt rise upbefore one who is a teacher in the law, and pay honour to the presence of theaged, and fear thy God. I am the Lord. And if a stranger sojourn with you inthe land, you shall not oppress him. As one born among you shall be thestranger who sojourneth among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself, becauseyou were sojourners in the land of Mizraim: I am the Lord your God. You shallcommit no falsity in judgment, in rule, (or line,) in weight, or in measure.Balances of truth, weights of truth, a measure in truth, and hins of truth youshall have. I am the Lord your God, who have brought you out from the land ofMizraim; and you shall keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and do them:I am the Lord.
XX. And the Lord spakewith Mosheh, saying, Speak unto the sons of Israel: Whatever man of the sons ofIsrael, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, giveth his offspring untoMolek,[4] <l > with killing shall hebe killed; the people of the house of Israel shall stone him with stones. And Iwill show My displeasure against that man, and will destroy from among hispeople, because he hath given his offspring unto Molek, to defile My sanctuaryand to profane My holy Name. And if the people of the house of Israel turn away(or hide) their eyes from that man when he giveth his offspring to Molek, thatthey may not have to put him to death, I will give forth My anger against thatman, and against his abettors, and will destroy him, and all who go after him,to wander after Molek, from among their people. And the man who turneth awayafter impostors and diviners to wander after them, I will set My displeasureupon that man, and will cut him off from among his people. But you shall besanctified, and be holy; for I am your God. And you shall observe My statutes,and do them: I am the Lord who sanctify you. For the man who curseth his fatheror his mother shall be surely put to death; he hath cursed his father, he isguilty of death. And the man who committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wifeshall be surely put to death; the adulterer and the adulteress. And the man wholieth with his father’s wife, uncovering his father’s nakedness, shall besurely put to death; both of them are guilty of death. And a man who lieth withhis daughter-in-law, both of them shall be slain: they have wroughtconfusion, they are guilty of death. And a man who lieth with a man as with awoman, both of them have wrought abomination: they are to be surely put todeath, of death they are guilty. And when a man taketh a wife along with hermother, it is wickedness; both he and they shall be burned with fire; suchwickedness shall not be among you. And if a man lie with a beast, be shall besurely put to death, and you shall kill the beast. And if a woman approach to abeast to submit to it, the woman shall be put to death, and the beast; theyshall verily be killed; of death they are guilty. And a man who shall take hissister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see hernakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is an ignominy and they shall bedestroyed before the eyes of the children of their people: he hath uncoveredthe nakedness of his sister, he shall receive (the punishment of) his guilt. Anda man who lieth with a woman who is unclean, and uncovereth her nakedness, hehath uncovered her shame, and she hath uncovered the uncleanness of her blood:both of them shall be cut off from among their people. Neither shalt thouuncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister; forhe will have uncovered that of his near kin; they shall receive for their sin.And if a man lie with the wife of his father’s brother he hath uncovered thenakedness of his father’s brother; they shall receive for their guilt withoutchildren shall they die. And if man take his brother’s wife,2 a thing to be kept aloof from, (merachaka,)he bathuncovered the nakedness of his brother, they shall be childless. But keep youall My statutes and all Aly judgments, and do them, that the land into which Ibring you to dwell may not cast you out. You shall not walk in the laws of thepeoples whom I drive away from before you; for they have committed all thesethin", and My Word hath abhorred them. But I have said to you, Ye shallinherit this land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land producingmilk and honey. I am the Lord your God who have separated you from the peoples.And you shall make distinction between animals clean and unclean, and between fowlsunclean and clean, and not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, orby any thing that creepeth on the ground which I have separated (as to be) untoyou unclean. And you shall be holy before Me; for I the Lord am holy, and Ihave separated you from the nations to be worshippers before Me. A man or awoman with whom are impostures or divinations shall be verily put to death;with stones they shall be stoned, they are guilty of death.
SECTIONXXXI.
EMOR.
XXI. AND the Lord spake with Mosheh,saying: Speak unto the priests, the sons of Aharon, and say to them: Let no onebe defiled among his people on account of the dead: yet for his kin, who isnigh to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for hisdaughter, and for his brother, and for his sister, a virgin who is near to him,who hath no husband, for her he may be defiled. But a chief among his people(the high priest) shall not defile himself, to make him
[1] <l > Compare chap. XX. 10.
[2] <l > Peschito, ÒYou shall not augur by awinged animal, Ò i.e., by the flight ofbirds.
[3] <l > See HERODOTUS, iii., 8.
[4] <l > Molek, the Ruler = Baal.
2 The deceased brother having left children. The lawin Deut. XXV. 5 refers to the case of a childless widow.