--- title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition) description: Leviticus from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition. authors: - Smith, Joseph, Jr. collections: - joseph-smith tags: - translation published: "1867" publisher: RLDS Publication Board publisher_place: Plano, Illinois publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867." edition: First edition (Plano, 1867) language: en type: book chapter: 19 verse_count: 37 reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Leviticus, chap. 19, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft." source: url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md." rights: status: public-domain basis: 1867 US publication source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft publication_year: 1867 --- # Leviticus 19 **1** And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, **2** Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy. **3** Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths; I am the Lord your God. **4** Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods; I am the Lord your God. **5** And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will. **6** It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow; and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire. **7** And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted. **8** Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. **9** And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. **10** And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger; I am the Lord your God. **11** Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. **12** And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God; I am the Lord. **13** Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him; the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. **14** Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shall fear thy God; I am the Lord. **15** Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. **16** Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the Lord. **17** Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart; thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. **18** Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; I am the Lord. **19** Ye shall keep my statutes. 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. **20** And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bond-maid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. **21** And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering. **22** And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him. **23** And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised; three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten of. **24** But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the Lord withal. **25** And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof; I am the Lord your God. **26** Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood; neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. **27** Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. **28** Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you; I am the Lord.. **29** Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. **30** Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the Lord. **31** Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them; I am the Lord your God. **32** Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God; I am the Lord. **33** And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. **34** But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God. **35** Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. **36** Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have; I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. **37** Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgment, and do them; I am the Lord.