Leviticus 19
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Leviticus 19:26-37

26‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination [using omens or witchcraft] or soothsaying.

27You shall not trim and round off the side-growth of [the hair on] your heads, nor mar the edges of your beard.

28You shall not make any cuts on your body [in mourning] for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.

29‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land will not fall to prostitution and become full of wickedness.

30You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary. I am the Lord.

31‘Do not turn to mediums [who pretend to consult the dead] or to spiritists [who have spirits of divination]; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

32‘You shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the Lord.

33‘When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress or mistreat him.

34But the stranger who resides with you shall be to you like someone native-born among you; and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

35‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight or quantity.

36You shall have just and accurate balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

37You shall observe and keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them. I am the Lord.’ ”

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