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Leviticus 19:19-33 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

19. “You are to keep My statutes. You must not crossbreed two different kinds of your livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed, or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.

20. “If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment. They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

21. However, he must bring a ram as his restitution offering to the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

22. The priest will make atonement on his behalf before the Lord with the ram of the restitution offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven for the sin he committed.

23. “When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden. It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

24. In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the Lord.

25. But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you; I am Yahweh your God.

26. “You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or sorcery.

27. You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

28. You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am Yahweh.

29. “Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

30. You must keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

31. “Do not turn to mediums or consult spiritists, or you will be defiled by them; I am Yahweh your God.

32. “You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old. Fear your God; I am Yahweh.

33. “When a foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

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