Sinai & The Law

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is .

`And with any beast thou dost not give thy copulation, for uncleanness with it; and a woman doth not stand before a beast to lie down with it; confusion it is .

`Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;

and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:

and ye--ye have kept My statutes and My judgments, and do not any of all these abominations, the native and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst,

(for all these abominations have the men of the land done who are before you, and the land is defiled),

and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which is before you;

for any one who doth any of all these abominations--even the persons who are doing so , have been cut off from the midst of their people;

and ye have kept My charge, so as not to do any of the abominable statutes which have been done before you, and ye do not defile yourselves with them; I am Jehovah your God.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Ye are holy, for holy am I, Jehovah, your God.

`Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I am Jehovah your God.

`Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I am Jehovah your God.

`And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, at your pleasure ye do sacrifice it;

in the day of your sacrificing it is eaten, and on the morrow, and that which is left unto the third day with fire is burnt,

and if it be really eaten on the third day, it is an abomination, it is not pleasing,

and he who is eating it his iniquity doth bear, for the holy thing of Jehovah he hath polluted, and that person hath been cut off from his people.

`And in your reaping the harvest of your land ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather,

and thy vineyard thou dost not glean, even the omitted part of thy vineyard thou dost not gather, to the poor and to the sojourner thou dost leave them; I am Jehovah your God.

`Ye do not steal, nor feign, nor lie one against his fellow.

`And ye do not swear by My name to falsehood, or thou hast polluted the name of thy God; I am Jehovah.

`Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

`Thou dost not revile the deaf; and before the blind thou dost not put a stumbling block; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; I am Jehovah.

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

`Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am Jehovah.