The biblical text is in the boxes and below that are various commentaries from the Talmud, midrash, medieval and modern rabbinic commentators, legal codes, and more. Norton & Co., 2004) on this chapter, "When the sundry injunctions here conclude with the reiterated formula 'I am the Lord,' the implication is 'I am the Lord your God Who is holy." (p. Biblical text translation below is NewJPS.) As Alter writes in his translation with commentary The Five Books of Moses (W.W. 18, with "And you shall love your fellow man as yourself." (Translation by Robert Alter. The equal weight of these two relationships comes together literally in 19:3 "You shall each revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths."Ĭhapter 19, vv. These commandments, particularly in chapter 19, for the first time make it clear that holiness is not just a property of the relationship between humans and God, but also between human beings and other human beings. It contains mainly commandments whose goals are to infuse holiness into the People of Israel, just as God is holy. Leviticus chapters 17-26 is known as the Holiness Code.
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