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Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

Let it be used for food on the same day on which it is offered, or on the day after; and whatever is over on the third day is to be burned with fire.

If any of it is used for food on the third day, it is a disgusting thing and will not be pleasing to the Lord.

And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people.

Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.

If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

Let him take his offering for wrongdoing to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting; let him give a male sheep as an offering for wrongdoing.

And the priest will take away his sin before the Lord with the sheep which is offered for his wrongdoing, and he will have forgiveness for the sin which he has done.

And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.

But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;