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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.

You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning.

If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave, designated for another man but not ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, since she has not been freed;

but he shall bring a guilt offering for himself to the Lord , at the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram as guilt offering.

And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he committed; and the sin he committed shall be forgiven him.

When you come into the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall regard their fruit as forbidden; three years it shall be forbidden to you, it must not be eaten.

In the fourth year all their fruit shall be set apart for rejoicing in 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.

You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: 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.

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

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to lay bare one's own flesh; they shall be subject to punishment.

You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; you shall not bring abomination on yourselves by animal or by bird or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

You shall be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.

The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his relatives,

except for his nearest kin: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother;

likewise, for a virgin sister, close to him because she has had no husband, he may defile himself for her.

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,