Vayikro
Book 3: Leviticus
KEDOSHIM
Chapter 19
Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying:
Verse 2: Speak to the entire congregation [of] Bnei Yisroel
and say to them: You shall be holy,
for I, Ad-noy, your G-d, am holy.
Verse 3: A man---you shall
fear his mother and father
and keep My Sabbaths,
I am Ad-noy, your
G-d.
Verse 4: Do not turn to the idols
and do not make molten gods for yourselves,
I am Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 5: When you
slaughter
a peace-offering to Ad-noy,
you shall slaughter it to be acceptable for you.
Verse 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.
Verse 7: And if it should be eaten at all on the third day
it is an abomination,
it will not be favorably accepted.
Verse 8: Whoever eats from it
shall bear his iniquity,
for the sacred
[things] of Ad-noy he has defiled.
That [person's] soul shall be cut off from its people.
Verse 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.
Verse 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 Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 11: You shall not steal.
You shall not
deny [a rightful claim]
and each one of you shall not lie to each other.
Verse 12: You shall not swear falsely by My Name
profaning the
Name of your G-d,
I am Ad-noy.
Verse 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.
Verse 14: You shall not
curse a deaf person
and before a blind person
you shall not place a stumbling-block;
you shall fear your G-d, I am Ad-noy.
Verse 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].
Verse 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 Ad-noy.
Verse 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.
Verse 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 Ad-noy.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 21: He shall bring his guilt-offering to Ad-noy,
to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting,
a guilt-offering-ram.
Verse 22: The kohein shall atone for him
with the guilt-offering-ram before Ad-noy
for the sin which he committed
and he will
be forgiven for the sin
which he committed.
Sh'lishi (Third Aliyah)
Verse 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.
Verse 24: On the fourth year,
all of its fruit shall be
holy [upon which to say] praise[s to] Ad-noy.
Verse 25: On the
fifth year, you may eat its fruit,
so that it will increase its produce for you,
I am Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 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.
Verse 27: Do not round
the corners of [the hair on] your heads
and you shall not destroy [by shaving]
the edges of
your beard.
Verse 28: Gashes for the dead
do not make in your skin.
Do not put tattoo marks on yourselves,
I am Ad-noy.
Verse 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.
Verse 30: You shall keep My Shabbosos
and you shall fear My Sanctuary,
I am Ad-noy.
Verse 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 Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 32: In the presence of the elderly you shall rise
and you shall respect an elder;
you shall have fear of your G-d,
I am Ad-noy.
33. If a proselyte comes to live with you,
in your land,
do not cause him anguish.
Verse 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 Ad-noy, your G-d.
Verse 35: You shall not commit injustice in judgement;
in [land]
measure, in weight or in volume measure.
Verse 36: Just scales and just weights
a just dry measure (ephah)
and a just liquid measure (hin)
you shall
have for yourselves,
I am Ad-noy, your G-d
who has taken you out of the land of Egypt.
Verse 37: You must keep all my statutes
and all of my laws, and do [observe] them.
I am Ad-noy.
Chamishi (Fifth Aliyah)
Chapter 20
Verse 1: Ad-noy spoke to Moshe, saying:
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 7: You shall
sanctify yourselves and be holy
for I am Ad-noy, your G-d.
8. You must keep My statutes
and do [observe] them.
I am Ad-noy who sanctifies you.
Verse 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.
Verse 10:
A man who commits adultery
with another man's wife
who commits adultery
with the wife of his fellow man---
they shall surely be put to death---
the adulterer and the adulteress.
Verse 11: A man who will lie [conjugally]
with his father's wife
has uncovered his father's nakedness;
they both shall surely be put to death,
their blood is on them.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 15: A man who lies [conjugally] with an animal
shall surely be put to death,
and you shall also kill the animal.
Verse 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.
Verse 17: A man who marries his sister,
either his father's daughter
or his mother's 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.
Verse 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.
Verse 19: The nakedness of your mother's sister
and of your father's sister,
you shall not uncover,
for the
nakedness of his close kin
he will have bared
they shall bear [the burden of] their iniquity.
Verse 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.
Verse 21: A man who
will marry his brother's wife
who must be [conjugally] avoided [by him];
he has uncovered his brother's nakedness,
they shall die without children.
Verse 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.
Shevi'i (Seventh Aliyah)
Verse 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.
Verse 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 Ad-noy, your G-d
who separated
you from the [other] peoples.
Maftir
Verse 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.
Verse 26: You shall be holy to Me,
for I, Ad-noy, am holy
and I have
distinguished you
from the [other] peoples
to be Mine [and to serve Me].
Verse 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.
Sixty-four verses.
Haftarah: Ashkenazim---Yechezkel 22:1--16
Sepharadim---Yechezkel 20:1--20
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