Today’s Office of Readings gave us this gem to meditate on, from the Book of Leviticus, chapter 19, basically what’s in the 10 Commandments, but expanded to remind us more deeply of our duties towards each other:
Each of you revere your mother and father, and keep my sabbaths.....Do not turn aside to idols, nor
make molten gods for yourselves........When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not be so
thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you gather the
gleanings of your harvest......Likewise,
you shall not pick your vineyard bare, nor gather up the grapes that have
fallen.......These
things you shall leave for the poor and the alien.....You shall not steal........You shall not deceive or speak
falsely to one another.....You
shall not swear falsely by my name, thus profaning the name of your God.....You shall not exploit your
neighbor......You
shall not commit robbery......
You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your laborer.....You shall not insult the deaf,
or put a stumbling block in front of the blind......You shall not act
dishonestly in rendering judgment......Show
neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, but judge your
neighbor justly.....You
shall not go about spreading slander among your people...... You shall
not hate any of your kindred in your heart.....Take no revenge and cherish no
grudge against your own people......You
shall love your neighbor as yourself......Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my
sanctuary......Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect
for the old, and fear your God.....When an alien resides with you in
your land, do not mistreat such a one......You
shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born
among you; you shall love the alien as yourself......Do not act dishonestly in using
measures of length or weight or capacity. I am the Lord your God.
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