18. Stop being angry and don't try to take revenge. I am the Lord, and I command you to love others as much as you love yourself.
19. Breed your livestock animals only with animals of the same kind, and don't plant two kinds of seed in the same field or wear clothes made of different kinds of material.
20. If a man has sex with a slave woman who is promised in marriage to someone else, he must pay a fine, but they are not to be put to death. After all, she was still a slave at the time.
21-22. The man must bring a ram to the entrance of the sacred tent and give it to a priest, who will then offer it as a sacrifice to me, so the man's sins will be forgiven.
23. After you enter the land, you will plant fruit trees, but you are not to eat any of their fruit for the first three years.
24. In the fourth year the fruit must be set apart, as an expression of thanks
25. to me, the Lord God. Do this, and in the fifth year, those trees will produce an abundant harvest of fruit for you to eat.
26. Don't eat the blood of any animal.Don't practise any kind of witchcraft.
27-28. I forbid you to shave any part of your head or beard or to cut and tattoo yourself as a way of worshipping the dead.
29. Don't let your daughters serve as temple prostitutes—this would bring disgrace both to them and the land.
30. I command you to respect the Sabbath and the place where I am worshipped.
31. Don't make yourselves disgusting to me by going to people who claim they can talk to the dead.
32. I command you to show respect for older people and to obey me with fear and trembling.