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You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord !

You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.'"

"Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, ‘You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the Lord your God.

You must not pick your vineyard bare, and you must not gather up the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the Lord your God.

You must not swear falsely in my name, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord .

You must not curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block in front of a blind person. You must fear your God; I am the Lord .

Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the Lord your God.

Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits to become unclean by them. I am the Lord your God.

You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the Lord .

The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

"‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.

So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.

"‘They must be holy to their God, and they must not profane the name of their God, because they are the ones who present the Lord 's gifts, the food of their God. Therefore they must be holy.

They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the Lord who sanctifies you all, am holy.

He must not go out from the sanctuary and must not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him. I am the Lord .

"Tell Aaron, ‘No man from your descendants throughout their generations who has a physical flaw is to approach to present the food of his God.