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Leviticus 19:9-24 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

9. When you harvest your grain, always leave some of it standing along the edges of your fields and don't pick up what falls on the ground.

10. Don't strip your grapevines clean or gather the grapes that fall off the vines. Leave them for the poor and for those foreigners who live among you. I am the Lord your God.

11. Do not steal or tell lies or cheat others.

12. Do not misuse my name by making promises you don't intend to keep. I am the Lord your God.

13. Do not steal anything or cheat anyone, and don't fail to pay your workers at the end of each day.

14. I am the Lord your God, and I command you not to make fun of the deaf or to cause a blind person to stumble.

15. Be fair, no matter who is on trial—don't favour either the poor or the rich.

16. Don't be a gossip, but never hesitate to speak up in court, especially if your testimony can save someone's life.

17. Don't hold grudges. On the other hand, it's wrong not to correct someone who needs correcting.

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

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