Sinai & The Law

"'Do not hate your brother in your heart, but rebuke your neighbor frankly, so that you won't carry sin because of him.

Don't take vengeance on or bear a grudge against any of your people; rather, love your neighbor as yourself; I am ADONAI.

"'Observe my regulations. "'Don't let your livestock mate with those of another kind, don't sow your field with two different kinds of grain, and don't wear a garment of cloth made with two different kinds of thread.

"'If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave intended for another man, and she has neither been redeemed nor given her freedom, there is to be an investigation. They are not to be put to death, because she was not free.

In reparation he is to bring a ram as a guilt offering for himself to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

The cohen will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before ADONAI for the sin he committed, and he will be forgiven for the sin he committed.

"'When you enter the land and plant various kinds of fruit trees, you are to regard its fruit as forbidden - for three years it will be forbidden to you and not eaten.

In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, for praising ADONAI.

But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, so that it will produce even more for you; I am ADONAI your God.

"'Do not eat anything with blood. Do not practice divination or fortune-telling.

Don't round your hair at the temples or mar the edges of your beard.

Don't cut gashes in your flesh when someone dies or tattoo yourselves; I am ADONAI.

"'Do not debase your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land will not fall into prostitution and become full of shame.

"'Keep my Shabbats, and revere my sanctuary; I am ADONAI.

"'Do not turn to spirit-mediums or sorcerers; don't seek them out, to be defiled by them; I am ADONAI your God.

"'Stand up in the presence of a person with gray hair, show respect for the old; you are to fear your God; I am ADONAI.

"'If a foreigner stays with you in your land, do not do him wrong.

Rather, treat the foreigner staying with you like the native-born among you - you are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am ADONAI your God.

"'Don't be dishonest when measuring length, weight or capacity.

Rather, use an honest balance-scale, honest weights, an honest bushel dry-measure and an honest gallon liquid-measure; I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Observe all my regulations and rulings, and do them; I am ADONAI.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Say to the people of Isra'el, 'If someone from the people of Isra'el or one of the foreigners living in Isra'el sacrifices one of his children to Molekh, he must be put to death; the people of the land are to stone him to death.

I too will set myself against him and cut him off from his people, because he has sacrificed his child to Molekh, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name.

If the people of the land look the other way when that man sacrifices his child to Molekh and fail to put him to death,