Forbidden Practices
19:23
When you come to the [promised] land and plant any tree bearing edible [fruit], you must avoid its fruit as a forbidden growth. For three years [the fruit] shall be a forbidden growth, and it may not be eaten.
19:24
Then, in the fourth year, all [the tree's] fruit shall be holy, and it shall be something for which God is praised.
19:25
In the fifth year, you may eat its fruit and thus increase your crops. I am God your Lord.
19:26
Do not eat on blood.
Do not act on the basis of omens.
Do not act on the basis of auspicious times.
19:27
Do not cut off the hair on the sides of your head.
Do not shave off the edges of your beard.
19:28
Do not make gashes in your skin for the dead.
Do not make any tattoo marks on your skin. I am God.
19:29
Do not defile your daughter with premarital sex. You will then not make the land sexually immoral, and the land [will not] be filled with perversion.
19:30
Keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary. I am God.
19:31
Do not turn to mediums, nor seek out oracles, so as to defile yourselves through them. I am God your Lord.
19:32
Stand up before a white head, and give respect to the old. You shall thus fear your God. I am God.
19:33
When a proselyte comes to live in your land, do not hurt his feelings.
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