16. ‘ “Do not go about spreading slander among your people.‘ “Do not do anything that endangers your neighbour’s life. I am the Lord.
17. ‘ “Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbour frankly so that you will not share in their guilt.
18. ‘ “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord.
19. ‘ “Keep my decrees.‘ “Do not mate different kinds of animals.‘ “Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.‘ “Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
20. ‘ “If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
21. The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the tent of meeting for a guilt offering to the Lord.
22. With the ram of the guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven.
23. ‘ “When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it forbidden; it must not be eaten.