1 Verder het die HERE met Moses gespreek en gesê:
2 Spreek met die hele vergadering van die kinders van Israel en sê vir hulle: Heilig moet julle wees, want Ek, die HERE julle God, is heilig.
3 Elkeen moet sy moeder en sy vader vrees, en my sabbatte hou. Ek is die HERE julle God.
4 Begeef julle nie tot die afgode en maak vir julle geen gegote gode nie. Ek is die HERE julle God.
5 En as julle 'n dankoffer aan die HERE slag, moet julle dit so offer, dat julle welgevalle kan vind.
6 Op die dag as julle dit offer en die dag daarna, moet dit geëet word; maar wat tot die derde dag toe oorbly, moet met vuur verbrand word.
7 En as dit tog op die derde dag geëet word, sal dit 'n onrein ding wees; dit sal nie met welgevalle aangeneem word nie.
8 En hy wat dit eet, moet sy ongeregtigheid dra, want wat heilig is aan die HERE, het hy ontheilig. Daarom moet die siel uit sy volksgenote uitgeroei word.
9 En as julle die opbrings van julle land oes, moet jy die kant van jou land nie heeltemal afoes en die are wat val, nie versamel nie.
10 Jou wingerd moet jy ook nie skoon afoes nie, en die trossies wat van jou wingerd val, nie versamel nie. Vir die arme en die vreemdeling moet jy dit laat oorbly. Ek is die HERE julle God.
11 Julle mag nie steel nie, en julle mag nie lieg nie, en julle mag die een die ander nie bedrieg nie.
12 En julle mag nie vals sweer by my Naam en so die Naam van jou God ontheilig nie. Ek is die HERE.
13 Jy mag jou naaste nie verdruk of beroof nie. Die dagloner se loon mag by jou nie tot die môre toe bly nie.
14 Jy mag 'n dowe nie vloek nie, en voor die blinde geen struikelblok lê nie; maar jy moet jou God vrees. Ek is die HERE.
15 Julle mag geen onreg doen in die gereg nie. Jy mag vir die geringe nie partydig wees nie en die aansienlike nie voortrek nie. Met geregtigheid moet jy oor jou naaste oordeel.
16 Jy mag nie as 'n kwaadspreker onder jou volksgenote rondloop nie. Jy mag nie teen die lewe van jou naaste optree nie. Ek is die HERE.
17 Jy mag jou broer in jou hart nie haat nie. Jy moet jou naaste vrymoedig berispe, sodat jy om sy ontwil geen sonde op jou laai nie.
18 Jy mag nie wraakgierig of haatdraend teenoor die kinders van jou volk wees nie, maar jy moet jou naaste liefhê soos jouself. Ek is die HERE.
19 Julle moet my insettinge hou. Twee soorte van jou vee mag jy nie laat paar nie. Jou akker moet jy nie met twee soorte saad besaai nie. En 'n kleed van twee soorte goed, van gemengde stof, mag nie op jou kom nie.
20 En as 'n man vleeslike gemeenskap het met 'n vrou wat 'n slavin is, vir 'n ander man bestemd, sonder dat sy ooit losgekoop of vryheid aan haar gegee is, dan moet daar bestraffing plaasvind. Hulle mag nie gedood word nie, want sy was nie vrygelaat nie.
21 En hy moet sy skuldoffer aan die HERE bring by die ingang van die tent van samekoms 'n ram as skuldoffer;
22 en die priester moet met die skuldofferram vir hom versoening doen voor die aangesig van die HERE weens die sonde wat hy gedoen het; en hy sal vergifnis ontvang vir sy sonde wat hy gedoen het.
23 En as julle in die land inkom en allerhande vrugtebome plant, moet julle hulle vrugte as verbode beskou; drie jaar lank moet hulle vir julle verbode wees; daar mag nie van geëet word nie.
24 Maar in die vierde jaar moet al hulle vrugte 'n heilige feesgawe aan die HERE wees;
25 en in die vyfde jaar mag julle hulle vrugte eet dit alles om hulle opbrings vir julle meer te maak. Ek is die HERE julle God.
26 Julle mag niks met bloed en al eet nie. Julle mag nie met verklaring van voortekens of goëlery omgaan nie.
27 Julle mag die rand van julle hoofhare nie rond wegskeer nie. Ook mag jy die rand van jou baard nie skend nie.
28 Julle mag ook ter wille van 'n dooie geen snye in julle vlees maak nie en geen ingeprikte tekening in julle vel maak nie. Ek is die HERE.
29 Ontheilig jou dogter nie deur haar vir hoerery aan te hou nie, sodat die land nie hoereer en die land vol skandelike dade word nie.
30 Julle moet my sabbatte hou en my heiligdom ontsien. Ek is die HERE.
31 Begeef julle nie tot die geeste van afgestorwenes en die geeste wat waarsê nie. Soek hulle nie om julle deur hulle te verontreinig nie. Ek is die HERE julle God.
32 Vir die grys hare moet jy opstaan, en die persoon van 'n grysaard eer; en jy moet jou God vrees. Ek is die HERE.
33 En as 'n vreemdeling by jou in julle land vertoef, mag julle hom nie verdruk nie.
34 Die vreemdeling wat by julle vertoef, moet vir julle wees soos 'n kind van die land wat onder julle is. En jy moet hom liefhê soos jouself, want julle was vreemdelinge in Egipteland. Ek is die HERE julle God.
35 Julle mag geen onreg doen in die gereg, in lengtemaat, gewig of inhoudsmaat nie.
36 Julle moet 'n regte weegskaal hê, regte weegstene, 'n regte efa en 'n regte hin. Ek is die HERE julle God wat julle uit Egipteland uitgelei het.
37 Daarom moet julle al my insettinge en al my verordeninge onderhou en dit doen. Ek is die HERE.
1 And the Lord said to Moses,
2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.
5 And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.
10 And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.
11 Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.
12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
13 Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
14 Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.
15 Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.
16 Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.
17 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.
18 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.
19 Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.
20 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.
21 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.
22 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.
23 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.
24 And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.
25 But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.
26 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.
27 The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.
28 You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.
29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.
30 Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.
31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.
32 Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.
33 And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;
34 Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
35 Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.
36 Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;
37 You are to keep all my rules and my decisions and do them: I am the Lord.