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Various Laws
19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of
Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD
your God am holy.
19:3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father,
and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
19:4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten
gods: I am the LORD your God.
19:5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto
the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
19:6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the
morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be
burnt in the fire.
19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is
abominable; it shall not be accepted.
19:8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his
iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the
LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou
gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
19:10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt
thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave
them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
19:11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie
one to another.
19:12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither
shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
19:13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him:
the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all
night until the morning.
19:14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a
stumbling-block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I
am the LORD.
19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou
shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the
person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge
thy neighbor.
19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among
thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of
thy neighbor; I am the LORD.
19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou
shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin
upon him.
19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against
the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself: I am the LORD.
19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy
cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy
field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of
linen and woolen come upon thee.
19:20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a
bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed,
nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not
be put to death, because she was not free.
19:21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the
LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
even a ram for a trespass offering.
19:22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with
the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin
which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be
forgiven him.
19:23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have
planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count
the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be
as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
19:24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be
holy to praise the LORD withal.
19:25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit
thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I
am the LORD your God.
19:26 Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither
shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither
shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
19:29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a
whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become
full of wickedness.
19:30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary: I am the LORD.
19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither
seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD
your God.
19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor
the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye
shall not vex him.
19:34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto
you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as
thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am
the LORD your God.
19:35 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in
meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just
hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought
you out of the land of Egypt.
19:37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all
my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
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Cults 
Why Did God Permit Sin?
