Study Desk

You must keep my instruction to not do any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am the Lord your God.”

“Speak to the entire Israelite community and tell them: Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

“Each of you is to respect his mother and father. You are to keep my Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God.

Do not turn to idols or make cast images of gods for yourselves; I am the Lord your God.

Do not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the resident alien; I am the Lord your God.

Do not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God; I am the Lord.

Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you are to fear your God; I am the Lord.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.

And I promised you: You will inherit their land, since I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who set you apart from the peoples.

They are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they present the fire offerings to the Lord, the food of their God, and they must be holy.

They are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution. They are not to marry one divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, the Lord who sets you apart, am holy.

He must not leave the sanctuary or he will desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the Lord.

“Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defect is to come near to present the food of his God.

No descendant of the priest Aaron who has a defect is to come near to present the fire offerings to the Lord. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.