18 (A)You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, (B)but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

19 ‘You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.

20 ‘Whoever lies carnally with a woman who is (C)betrothed to a man as a concubine, and who has not at all been redeemed nor given her freedom, for this there shall be [a]scourging; but they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

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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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