¹ Og Herren talte til Moses og sa:

² Tal til hele Israels barns menighet og si til dem: I skal være hellige; for jeg, Herren eders Gud, er hellig.

³ I skal ha ærefrykt enhver for sin mor og sin far, og I skal holde mine sabbater; jeg er Herren eders Gud.

⁴ I skal ikke vende eder til avgudene og ikke gjøre eder støpte guder; jeg er Herren eders Gud.

⁵ Når I vil ofre takkoffer til Herren, da skal I ofre det således at han kan ha velbehag i eder.

⁶ Den dag I ofrer det, skal det etes, eller og dagen efter; men det som blir tilovers til den tredje dag, skal brennes op med ild.

⁷ Dersom det etes på den tredje dag, da er det en vederstyggelighet; Herren har da ikke velbehag i det.

⁸ Og den som eter det, kommer til å lide for sin misgjerning, for han har vanhelliget det som var helliget Herren; han skal utryddes av sitt folk.

⁹ Når I høster grøden i eders land, så skal du ikke skjære kornet helt ut til den ytterste kant av din aker, og de aks som blir liggende efter innhøstingen, skal du ikke sanke op,

¹⁰ Og du skal ikke holde efterhøst i din vingård og ikke sanke op de nedfalne bær i din vingård; du skal la dem ligge til den fattige og den fremmede; jeg er Herren eders Gud.

¹¹ I skal ikke stjele, og I skal ikke lyve, og ingen av eder skal gå svikefullt frem mot sin næste.

¹² I skal ikke sverge på løgn ved mitt navn, så du vanhelliger din Guds navn; jeg er Herren.

¹³ Du skal ikke frata din næste noget med urett og ikke rane noget fra ham; du skal ikke la en dagarbeiders lønn bli natten over hos dig til om morgenen.

¹⁴ Du skal ikke banne en døv og ikke legge støt for en blind, men du skal frykte din Gud; jeg er Herren.

¹⁵ I skal ikke gjøre urett i dommen; du skal ikke holde med nogen fordi han er ringe, og ikke gi nogen rett fordi han er mektig; du skal dømme din næste med rettferdighet.

¹⁶ Du skal ikke gå omkring og baktale folk, du skal ikke stå din næste efter livet; jeg er Herren.

¹⁷ Du skal ikke hate din bror i ditt hjerte, men du skal irettesette din næste, forat du ikke skal få synd på dig for hans skyld.

¹⁸ Du skal ikke hevne dig og ikke gjemme på vrede mot ditt folks barn, men du skal elske din næste som dig selv; jeg er Herren.

¹⁹ I skal holde mine lover: Du skal ikke la to slags dyr av ditt fe parre sig med hverandre; du skal ikke så to slags sæd på din mark, og klær som er vevd av to slags garn, skal ikke komme på dig.

²⁰ Når en mann ligger hos en kvinne og har omgang med henne, og hun er trælkvinne og festet til en annen mann, men ikke løskjøpt eller frigitt, da skal de straffes, men de skal ikke bøte med livet, fordi hun ikke var frigitt.

²¹ Men han skal føre sitt skyldoffer frem for Herren, til inngangen til sammenkomstens telt, en skyldoffer-vær.

²² Og med skyldoffer-væren skal presten gjøre soning for ham for Herrens åsyn, for den synd han har gjort; så får han forlatelse for den synd han har gjort.

²³ Når I kommer inn i landet og planter alle slags frukttrær, da skal I holde deres første frukt for uren; i tre år skal de være urene for eder, og I skal ikke ete av dem.

²⁴ I det ferde år skal all deres frukt vies til Herren i en gledesfest,

²⁵ og først i det femte år kan I ete deres frukt - forat de siden kan bære dess mere for eder; jeg er Herren eders Gud.

²⁶ I skal ikke ete noget med blodet i. I skal ikke gi eder av med å tyde varsler eller spå av skyene.

²⁷ I skal ikke rundskjære eders hår; heller ikke skal du klippe ditt skjegg kort.

²⁸ I skal ikke skjære i eders kjøtt av sorg over en avdød, og ikke brenne inn skrifttegn på eder; jeg er Herren.

²⁹ Du skal ikke vanhellige din datter ved å la henne drive hor, forat ikke landet skal drive hor og bli fullt av skjensel.

³⁰ Mine sabbater skal I holde og ha ærefrykt for min helligdom; jeg er Herren.

³¹ I skal ikke vende eder til dødningemanere og ikke ty til sannsigere, så I gjør eder urene ved dem; jeg er Herren eders Gud.

³² For de grå hår skal du reise dig og ære den gamle, og du skal frykte din Gud; jeg er Herren.

³³ Når en fremmed bor hos eder i eders land, da skal I ikke undertrykke ham.

³⁴ Den fremmede som bor hos eder, skal regnes som en innfødt blandt eder, og du skal elske ham som dig selv, for I har selv vært fremmede i Egyptens land; jeg er Herren eders Gud.

³⁵ I skal ikke gjøre urett i dom, i lengdemål, i vekt eller i hulmål.

³⁶ ette vektskåler, rette vektlodder, rett efa og rett hin skal I ha; jeg er Herren eders Gud, som førte eder ut av Egyptens land.

³⁷ I skal ta vare på alle mine lover og alle mine bud og holde dem; jeg er Herren.

¹ The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

² and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."

³ He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

⁴ But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

⁵ They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."

⁶ Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

⁷ He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly.

⁸ See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

⁹ They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

¹⁰ But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

¹¹ They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

¹² The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

¹³ for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

¹⁴ Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

¹⁵ When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

¹⁶ But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

¹⁷ It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

¹⁸ Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.

¹⁹ See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

²⁰ See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."

²¹ He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

²² Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

²³ The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

²⁴ Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

²⁵ He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

²⁷ Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

²⁸ He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

²⁹ It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

³⁰ Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

³¹ The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

³² Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

³³ They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.

³⁴ It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."

³⁵ They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she got up.

³⁶ Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father.

³⁷ The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

³⁸ The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.