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"Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "I am the LORD your God.

You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God.

And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

"Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God."'

"Speak to all the congregation of the children 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 keep My Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

"Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your God.

And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather every grape of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the LORD your God.

And you shall not swear by My name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase: I am the LORD your God.

"Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

"You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.

The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born 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 honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest 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 offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.

They shall not take a wife who is a harlot or a defiled woman, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for the priest [fn] is holy to his God.

Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.