[[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Leviticus Overview]] [[Leviticus 18]] [[Leviticus 20]] # Leviticus 19 📖 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Religious and Social Regulations [[#Verse 01.]] The Lord spoke to Moses:  [[#Verse 02.]] “Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, ‘You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.  [[#Verse 03.]] Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.  [[#Verse 04.]] Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the Lord your God. ### Eating the Peace Offering [[#Verse 05.]] “‘When you sacrifice a peace-offering sacrifice to the Lord, you must sacrifice it so that it is accepted for you.  [[#Verse 06.]] It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice and on the following day, but what is left over until the third day must be burned up.  [[#Verse 07.]] If, however, it is eaten on the third day, it is spoiled; it will not be accepted,  [[#Verse 08.]] and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the Lord. That person will be cut off from his people. ### Leaving the Gleanings [[#Verse 09.]] “‘When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.  [[#Verse 10.]] You must not pick your vineyard bare, and you must not gather up the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You must leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner. I am the Lord your God. ### Dealing Honestly [[#Verse 11.]] “‘You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen.  [[#Verse 12.]] You must not swear falsely in my name, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 13.]] You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against your neighbor. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.  [[#Verse 14.]] You must not curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block in front of a blind person. You must fear your God; I am the Lord. ### Justice, Love, and Propriety [[#Verse 15.]] “‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: You must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.  [[#Verse 16.]] You must not go about as a slanderer among your people. You must not stand idly by when your neighbor’s life is at stake. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 17.]] You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him. [[#Verse 18.]] You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 19.]] You must keep my statutes. You must not allow two different kinds of your animals to breed together, you must not sow your field with two different kinds of seed, and you must not wear a garment made of two different kinds of material. ### Lying with a Slave Woman [[#Verse 20.]] “‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.  [[#Verse 21.]] He must bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, a guilt offering ram, [[#Verse 22.]] and the priest is to make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven of his sin that he has committed. ### The Produce of Fruit Trees [[#Verse 23.]] “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. Three years it will be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.  [[#Verse 24.]] In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, praise offerings to the Lord. [[#Verse 25.]] Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the Lord your God. ### Blood, Hair, Body, and Prostitution [[#Verse 26.]] “‘You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.  [[#Verse 27.]] You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.  [[#Verse 28.]] You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 29.]] Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness. ### Sabbaths, Purity, Honor, Respect, and Honesty [[#Verse 30.]] “‘You must keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 31.]] Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits to become unclean by them. I am the Lord your God.  [[#Verse 32.]] You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the Lord.  [[#Verse 33.]] When a resident foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.  [[#Verse 34.]] The resident foreigner who lives with you must be to you as a native citizen among you; so you must love the foreigner as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.  [[#Verse 35.]] You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume. [[#Verse 36.]] You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.  [[#Verse 37.]] You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. I am the Lord.’” ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) %% %% #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 coming soon. - 🔗 coming soon. %% Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 %% ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..." %% ##### 📂 Internal Links/Personal Notes