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My ordinances you shall observe and my statutes you shall keep, following them: I am the Lord your God.

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

So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you, and not to defile yourselves 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.

You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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

You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am the Lord your God.

And you shall not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God: I am the Lord .

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

But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their yield may be increased for you: I am the Lord your God.

Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

You shall rise before the aged, and defer to the old; and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord .

The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

You shall have honest balances, 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; I have 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 offerings by fire, the food 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 they are holy to their God,

and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord , I who sanctify you, am holy.

He shall not go outside the sanctuary and thus profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord .