(19:2-3)
(19:2) "Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy."
Is only God holy?
(19:3) "Keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God."
Is it necessary to keep the sabbath?
(19:7-8) "If it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable ... every one that eateth it ... shall be cut off from among his people."
Don't eat sacrifices on the third day or God will cut you off.
(19:10-18) Some good stuff for a change. (And some contradictions.)
(19:10) "Leave them for the poor and stranger."
Leave some grapes on the vine for travelers and the poor. Now that
is a nice idea.
(19:11) "Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another."
Don't steal or lie.
Is it wrong to steal or to lie?
(19:13) "Thou shalt not defraud
thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired."
(19:14) "Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind."
Be kind to the deaf and blind.
(19:15) "In righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour."
To judge or not to judge.
(19:16) "Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people."
Don't gossip.
(19:17) "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart."
Should we love or hate others?
(19:18) "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
This is by far the best verse in Leviticus, and one of the best in the entire Bible.
How should nonbelievers be treated?
Should we love or hate others?
(19:19) "Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a
garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee." Don't let cows interbreed, sow with mixed seed, or mix linen and wool in the same
garment.
(19:20) "Whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband ... She shall be scourged."
If a man has sex with an engaged slave woman, scourge the woman, but don't punish
the man. (Even if he raped her?)
Is slavery OK?
(19:23-28)
Uncirumcised fruit, blood, astrology, beards, tatoos, wizards and familiar spirits.
(19:23) "Ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised."
God tells the Israelites that the fruit from
fruit trees is "uncircumcised" for three years after the trees are
planted.
(19:26) "Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times."
Don't eat anything with blood, or use magic or astrology.
Is magic OK?
Does the Bible condemn astrology?
(19:27) "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard."
Don't round the corners of your head or beard.
(19:28) "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you."
Don't get any tattoos.
(19:30) "Ye shall keep my sabbaths."
Is it necessary to keep the sabbath?
(19:31) "Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards"
Stay away from wizards and familiar spirits.
Is magic OK?
(19:32-36) A few more good rules
(19:32) "Honour the face of the old man."
Respect your elders.
(19:34) "Thou shalt love him [the stranger] as thyself."
How should strangers be treated?
(19:35) "Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure."
(19:36) "Just balances, just weights ... shall ye have."
Treat others fairly; don't cheat.