Parsha Kedoshim

(19,1) Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:

(19,2) Speak to the entire congregation [of] Bnei Yisroel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I, Adonoy, your God, am holy.

(19,3) A man—you shall fear his mother and father and keep My Sabbaths, I am Adonoy, your God.

(19,4) Do not turn to the idols and do not make molten gods for yourselves, I am Adonoy, your God.

(19,5) When you slaughter a peace-offering to Adonoy, you shall slaughter it to be acceptable for you.

(19,6) On the day that it is slaughtered it may be eaten and on the next day. Whatever is left over by the third day shall be burned in fire.

(19,7) And if it should be eaten at all on the third day it is an abomination, it will not be favorably accepted.

(19,8) Whoever eats from it shall bear his iniquity, for the sacred [things] of Adonoy he has defiled. That [persons] soul shall be cut off from its people.

(19,9) When you will reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap a corner of your field, and the gleanings of your harvest you shall not gather.

(19,10) You shall not glean your vineyard, and the fallen grapes of your vineyard, you shall not gather. For the poor and the proselyte you shall leave them, I am Adonoy, your God.

(19,11) You shall not steal. You shall not deny [a rightful claim] and each one of you shall not lie to each other.

(19,12) You shall not swear falsely by My Name profaning the Name of your God, I am Adonoy.

(19,13) You shall not withhold the wages of your fellow [Jew] and you shall not rob. It shall not remain overnight, the wages of a day-laborer, keeping it in your possession until morning.

(19,14) You shall not curse a deaf person and before a blind person you shall not place a stumbling-block; you shall fear your God, I am Adonoy.

(19,15) You shall not commit injustice in judgement, you shall not favor a poor man and you shall not show honor to a powerful man. With righteousness shall you judge your fellow [Jew].

(19,16) Do not be a tale-bearer among your people. You shall not stand idly by [when] the blood (life) of your fellow [is in danger]. I am Adonoy.

(19,17) You shall not hate your brother in your heart; You shall certainly rebuke your friend; [but] you shall not bear a sin on his account.

(19,18) You shall not take revenge or bear a grudge against the children of your people. You shall love your fellow [Jew] as yourself, I am Adonoy.

(19,19) Keep My statutes; Do not cross-breed your animals with different species. Do not sow your field with a mixture of different seeds. A garment that contains shatnez [a forbidden mixture of linen and wool] you shall not wear.

(19,20) If a man lies with a woman in a conjugal manner, and she is a maid-servant designated for a [specific] man and she has certainly not been redeemed, or her freedom was not given to her; there shall be an investigation they shall not be put to death, for her freedom was not given to her.

(19,21) He shall bring his guilt-offering to Adonoy, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, a guilt-offering-ram.

(19,22) The kohein shall atone for him with the guilt-offering-ram before Adonoy for the sin which he committed and he will be forgiven for the sin which he committed.

(19,23) When you will enter the land and you will plant any food-bearing tree, you shall regard its fruit as closed off. [For] three years it shall be closed off to you, it shall not be eaten.

(19,24) On the fourth year, all of its fruit shall be holy [upon which to say] praise[s to] Adonoy.

(19,25) On the fifth year, you may eat its fruit, so that it will increase its produce for you, I am Adonoy, your God.

(19,26) You shall not eat [sacred offerings] [before] the blood [is sprinkled on the altar]. You shall not act on the basis of omens nor act on the basis of auspicious times.

(19,27) Do not round the corners of [the hair on] your heads and you shall not destroy [by shaving] the edges of your beard.

(19,28) Gashes for the dead do not make in your skin. Do not put tattoo marks on yourselves, I am Adonoy.

(19,29) You shall not defile your daughter by causing her to engage in harlotry lest the land be turned astray, and the land be filled with lewdness.

(19,30) You shall keep My Shabbosos and you shall fear My Sanctuary, I am Adonoy.

(19,31) You shall not turn to mediums nor seek out oracles; do not seek [them] out, so as to defile yourselves through them. I am Adonoy, your God.

(19,32) In the presence of the elderly you shall rise and you shall respect an elder; you shall have fear of your God, I am Adonoy.

(19,33) If a proselyte comes to live with you, in your land, do not cause him anguish.

(19,34) As one of your native born he shall be considered by you, the proselyte who lives with you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt, I am Adonoy, your God.

(19,35) You shall not commit injustice in judgement; in [land] measure, in weight or in volume measure.

(19,36) Just scales and just weights a just dry measure (ephah) and a just liquid measure (hin) you shall have for yourselves, I am Adonoy, your God who has taken you out of the land of Egypt.

(19,37) You must keep all my statutes and all of my laws, and do [observe] them. I am Adonoy.

(20,1) Adonoy spoke to Moshe, saying:

(20,2) And to Bnei Yisrael you shall say: that each and every man of Bnei Yisroel and from the proselytes that reside in Israel, who will give any of his children to Molech, [that] he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him to death.

(20,3) I shall direct My wrath on that man and I shall cut him off from among his people, for he gave of his children to Molech, in order to defile My Sanctuary and profane My Holy Name.

(20,4) If the people of the land will hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his children to Molech, and they do not put him to death.

(20,5) I shall set My wrath against that man and his family; I shall cut him off, along with all those who go astray after him to go astray after Molech, [they will be cut off] from among their people.

(20,6) The person who turns to mediums and oracles to stray after them; I shall direct My wrath against that person and cut him off from among his people.

(20,7) You shall sanctify yourselves and be holy for I am Adonoy, your God.

(20,8) You must keep My statutes and do [observe] them. I am Adonoy who sanctifies you.

(20,9) Any man that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. [Since] he has cursed his father or mother, his blood is on him.

(20,10) A man who commits adultery with another mans wife who commits adultery with the wife of his fellow man—they shall surely be put to death—the adulterer and the adulteress.

(20,11) A man who will lie [conjugally] with his fathers wife has uncovered his fathers nakedness; they both shall surely be put to death, their blood is on them.

(20,12) A man who will lie [conjugally] with his daughter-in-law; they both shall surely be put to death they have committed an act of perversion, their blood is on them.

(20,13) A man who will lie [conjugally] with [another] man, in the same manner as with a woman; they both have committed an abominable act, they shall surely be put to death, their blood is on them.

(20,14) A man who marries a woman and her mother; it is lewdness. They shall be burned in fire, he and [one of] them, and there will no longer be such lewdness among you.

(20,15) A man who lies [conjugally] with an animal shall surely be put to death, and you shall also kill the animal.

(20,16) A woman who presents herself to an animal causing it to copulate with her; you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be killed, their blood is on them.

(20,17) A man who marries his sister, either his fathers daughter or his mothers daughter, and he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful perversion. They shall be cut off before their people he has uncovered the nakedness of his sister, he shall bear [the burden of] his iniquity.

(20,18) A man who will lie [conjugally] with a menstruating woman and uncover her nakedness and uncover her source [womb] and she has uncovered the source of her blood; they shall both be cut off from among their people.

(20,19) The nakedness of your mothers sister and of your fathers sister, you shall not uncover, for the nakedness of his close kin he will have bared they shall bear [the burden of] their iniquity.

(20,20) A man who will lie [conjugally] with his aunt has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle they will bear [the burden of] their sin and they will die without children.

(20,21) A man who will marry his brothers wife who must be [conjugally] avoided [by him]; he has uncovered his brothers nakedness, they shall die without children.

(20,22) You shall keep all of My statutes and all of My laws and do (observe) them [so that] you will not be expelled by the land to which I am bringing you there to reside therein.

(20,23) You shall not follow the customs of the nation which I am expelling before you. For they have done all these above mentioned sins and I became disgusted with them.

(20,24) And I have said to you [that] you shall inherit their land, and I shall give it to you that you may inherit it, a land flowing with milk and honey, I am Adonoy, your God who separated you from the [other] peoples.

(20,25) You shall distinguish between a [ritually] clean animal and a unclean one, between the unclean fowl and the clean one. Do not make yourselves disgusting through the animals, fowl or through any creature that creeps on the ground which I have distinguished for you as being unclean.

(20,26) You shall be holy to Me, for I, Adonoy, am holy and I have distinguished you from the [other] peoples to be Mine [and to serve Me].

(20,27) If among the men or women there will be a medium or an oracle they shall surely be put to death. You shall stone them to death, their blood is on them.