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Leviticus 19:18-20
Contemporary English Version
Leviticus 19:18-20
Contemporary English Version
18 (A) Don't be angry or try to take revenge. I am the Lord, and I command you to love others as much as you love yourself.
19 (B) Breed your livestock animals only with animals of the same kind, and don't plant two kinds of seed in the same field or wear clothes made of different kinds of material.
20 If a man has sex with a slave woman who is promised in marriage to someone else, he must pay a fine, but they are not to be put to death. After all, she was still a slave at the time.[a]
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- 19.20 time: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 20.
Leviticus 19:18-20
New International Version
Leviticus 19:18-20
New International Version
18 “‘Do not seek revenge(A) or bear a grudge(B) against anyone among your people,(C) but love your neighbor(D) as yourself.(E) I am the Lord.
19 “‘Keep my decrees.(F)
“‘Do not mate different kinds of animals.
“‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.(G)
“‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.(H)
20 “‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man(I) but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment.[a] Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
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