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For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy."

"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God.

You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.

You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord .

So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God."

"Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.

And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.

You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord .

You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord .

But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the Lord your God.

"Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

"You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord .

You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with 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.

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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

But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the Lord 's food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.