Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 19

This is Leviticus chapter 19, a legal-ethical code from the Hebrew Bible, presented in a trilingual parallel format: the King James Version (KJV) in English with Strong's concordance numbers, the Septuagint (LXX) in ancient Greek, and the Tanakh (Masoretic Text) in Hebrew. The chapter opens with God commanding Moses to tell Israel to "be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy" — the founding principle that frames the entire passage. What follows is a dense compilation of commandments spanning ritual, agricultural, social, and moral domains: honoring parents, observing Sabbaths, leaving field corners and vineyard gleanings for the poor and foreigner, prohibitions on theft, fraud, false oaths, and gossip, impartial justice, respect for the elderly, and fair weights and measures. The chapter notably includes, in verse 18, the commandment to "love your neighbor as yourself" and, in verse 34, extends that same love explicitly to resident foreigners — groundbreaking ethical claims in their ancient context. The trilingual layout suggests a scholarly or comparative-textual purpose, allowing readers to examine how different canonical traditions rendered the same source material, with the Strong's numbers enabling word-level tracing back to the Hebrew. The text is a foundational document in both Jewish law (Torah) and Christian ethics, and is remarkable for weaving together cultic regulations with humanitarian social obligations under a single theological rationale.

Polyglot Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus 19

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