Bible Reading
April 1
The World English Bible
Apr.
1
Leviticus
19, 20
Lev
19:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
19:2 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel,
and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.
Lev
19:3 " 'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his
father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
Lev
19:4 " 'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for
yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.
Lev
19:5 " 'When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to
Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.
Lev
19:6 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and on the next
day: and if anything remains until the third day, it shall be burned
with fire.
Lev
19:7 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination.
It will not be accepted;
Lev
19:8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he
has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off
from his people.
Lev
19:9 " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not
wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the
gleanings of your harvest.
Lev
19:10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather
the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor
and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.
Lev
19:11 " 'You shall not steal; neither shall you deal falsely,
nor lie to one another.
Lev
19:12 " 'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane
the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
Lev
19:13 " 'You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The
wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until
the morning.
Lev
19:14 " 'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling
block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
Lev
19:15 " 'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not
be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you
shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Lev
19:16 " 'You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your
people; neither shall you stand against the life of your neighbor. I
am Yahweh.
Lev
19:17 " 'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You
shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
Lev
19:18 " 'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge
against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor
as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Lev
19:19 " 'You shall keep my statutes. " 'You shall not
crossbreed different kinds of animals. " 'you shall not sow your
field with two kinds of seed; " 'neither shall there come upon
on you a garment made of two kinds of material.
Lev
19:20 " 'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave
girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or
given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to
death, because she was not free.
Lev
19:21 He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of
the Tent of Meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.
Lev
19:22 The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the
trespass offering before Yahweh for his sin which he has committed:
and the sin which he has committed shall be forgiven him.
Lev
19:23 " 'When you come into the land, and have planted all
kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as
forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not
be eaten.
Lev
19:24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving
praise to Yahweh.
Lev
19:25 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield
its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.
Lev
19:26 " 'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it;
neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
Lev
19:27 " 'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads,
neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.
Lev
19:28 " 'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
Lev
19:29 " 'Don't profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute;
lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of
wickedness.
Lev
19:30 " 'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
Lev
19:31 " 'Don't turn to those who are mediums, nor to the
wizards. Don't seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your
God.
Lev
19:32 " 'You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the
face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
Lev
19:33 " 'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your
land, you shall not do him wrong.
Lev
19:34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you
as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for
you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
Lev
19:35 " 'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in
measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Lev
19:36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and
a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt.
Lev
19:37 You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and
do them. I am Yahweh.' "
Lev
20:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev
20:2 "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, 'Anyone
of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners
in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be
put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Lev
20:3 I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him
off from among his people because he has given of his seed to Molech,
to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
Lev
20:4 If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person,
when he gives of his seed to Molech, and don't put him to death;
Lev
20:5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after
him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
Lev
20:6 " 'The person that turns to those who are mediums, and to
the wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my
face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.
Lev
20:7 " 'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am
Yahweh your God.
Lev
20:8 You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who
sanctifies you.
Lev
20:9 " 'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall
surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his
blood shall be upon him.
Lev
20:10 " 'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife,
even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer
and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Lev
20:11 The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his
father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their
blood shall be upon them.
Lev
20:12 " 'If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them
shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their
blood shall be upon them.
Lev
20:13 " 'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of
them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them.
Lev
20:14 " 'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is
wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that
there may be no wickedness among you.
Lev
20:15 " 'If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put
to death; and you shall kill the animal.
Lev
20:16 " 'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with
it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be
put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Lev
20:17 " 'If a man takes his sister, his father's daughter, or
his mother's daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his
nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the
sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's
nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Lev
20:18 " 'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period,
and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she
has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be
cut off from among their people.
Lev
20:19 " 'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's
sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close
relative: they shall bear their iniquity.
Lev
20:20 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his
uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die
childless.
Lev
20:21 " 'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity:
he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
Lev
20:22 " 'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my
ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to
dwell, may not vomit you out.
Lev
20:23 You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am
casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore
I abhorred them.
Lev
20:24 But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land,
and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and
honey." I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the
peoples.
Lev
20:25 " 'You shall therefore make a distinction between the
clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the
clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by
bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have
separated from you as unclean for you.
Lev
20:26 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set
you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
Lev
20:27 " 'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard,
shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones;
their blood shall be upon them.' "
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