Dual Panel1THE LORD told Moses
2to say to the whole Israelite community: You must be holy, because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
3Each one of you must revere his mother and father. You must keep my sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
4Do not resort to idols or make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.
5When you sacrifice a shared-offering to the LORD, you are to slaughter it so as to win acceptance for yourselves.
6It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice or on the next day. Anything left over till the third day must be destroyed by fire;
7it is tainted, and if any of it is eaten on the third day, it will not be acceptable.
8He who eats it must accept responsibility, because he has profaned the holy-gift to the LORD: that person will be cut off from his father's kin.
9When you reap the harvest in your land, do not reap right up to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your crop.
10Do not completely strip your vineyard, or pick up the fallen grapes; leave them for the poor and for the alien. I am the LORD your God.
11You must not steal; you must not cheat or deceive a fellow-countryman.
12You must not swear in my name with intent to deceive and thus profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
13You are not to oppress your neighbour or rob him. Do not keep back a hired man's wages till next morning.
14Do not treat the deaf with contempt, or put an obstacle in the way of the blind; you are to fear your God. I am the LORD.
15You are not to pervert justice, either by favouring the poor or by subservience to the great. You are to administer justice to your fellow-countryman with strict fairness.
16Do not go about spreading slander among your father's kin; do not take sides against your neighbour on a capital charge. I am the LORD.
17You are not to nurse hatred towards your brother. Reprove your fellow-countryman frankly, and so you will have no share in his guilt.
18Never seek revenge or cherish a grudge towards your kinsfolk; you must love your neighbour as yourself. I am the LORD.
19You must observe my statutes. You may not allow two different kinds of animal to mate together. You are not to plant your field with two kinds of seed, nor to wear a garment woven with two kinds of yarn.
20When a man has intercourse with a slave-girl who has been assigned to another but has been neither redeemed nor given her freedom, enquiry should be made. They are not to be put to death, because she has not been freed.
21The man is to bring his reparation-offering, a ram, to the LORD to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting,
22and with it the priest will make expiation for him before the LORD for his sin, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.
23When you enter the land, and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to treat it as bearing forbidden fruit. For three years it is forbidden and may not be eaten.
24In the fourth year all its fruit is to be holy for a praise-offering to the LORD, a festal jubilation.
25In the fifth year you may eat its fruit. Thus the yield it gives you will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
26Never eat meat with the blood in it. You must not practise divination or soothsaying.
27You are not to cut off your hair from your temples or shave the edge of your beards.
28You must not gash yourselves in mourning for the dead or tattoo yourselves. I am the LORD.
29Do not debase your daughter by making her become a prostitute. The land is not to play the prostitute and be full of lewdness.
30You must keep my sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
31Do not resort to ghosts and spirits or make yourselves unclean by seeking them out. I am the LORD your God.
32Rise in the presence of grey hairs, give honour to the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
33When an alien resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
34He is to be treated as a native born among you. Love him as yourself, because you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
35You are not to falsify measures of length, weight, or quantity.
36You must use true scales and weights, true dry and liquid measures. I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt.
37You must observe all my statutes and all my laws and carry them out. I am the LORD.