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Leviticus 19:9-18, King James Version

King James VersionLeviticus 19:9-18

Italic words were supplied in the English translation for clarity.

Leviticus 19:9-18

Harvest, wages, disability, courts, speech, rescue, and neighbor love belong together

Harvest edges are left for people who need them

The owner is not to reap the field's corners or gather the gleaning of harvest or vineyard. Those remain for the poor and for the stranger. Neighbor love here is food left on the ground, not a feeling added after profit is maximized.

Wages, bodies, courts, and speech are holiness too

Theft, lying, and false oaths that profane God's name are forbidden. A worker's wages are not to remain overnight. A deaf person is not to be cursed; a stumbling block is not to be placed before a blind person; the people are to fear God. Judgment must not honor the poor out of partiality or favor the mighty.

Slander is barred, and a person must not stand idle when a neighbor's blood is at stake. These are concrete social commands. Disability is not a metaphor for sin. Blind and deaf neighbors are protected from hidden cruelty.

Love of neighbor closes a chain, not a slogan

Israel is not to hate a brother in the heart, but to rebuke a neighbor and not bear sin because of him. Vengeance and grudges against one's people are forbidden. 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.'

The famous sentence is the last link in a chain that already named gleaning, unpaid wages, courtroom bias, gossip, bystander harm, and quiet hatred. Neighbor love is those practices gathered into one command.

How this should shape us

Measure love of neighbor by edges of fields, timely pay, accessible streets, impartial judgment, truthful speech, and refusal of revenge. Do not turn a disabled person's body into an object lesson, and do not reduce this unit to a motto that leaves the poor unpaid.

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King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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Leviticus 19:9-18, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus

Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.

Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 19:9-18

NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes

Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.

NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 19:9-18

Leviticus Part 2: Day of Atonement, Holiness Code, and Love of Neighbor

Supports: Open critical orientation to Day of Atonement, holiness, social law, calendar, land, release, covenant, and final valuations.

Yale Bible Study, 'Leviticus Part 2,' complete guide sections on Leviticus 16, the Holiness Code, love of neighbor, festivals, land, covenant, and vows, applied to Leviticus 19:9-18

Hebrews and the Question of Supersessionism

Supports: Publisher-visible framing of scholarly disagreement about Hebrews and supersessionism, used as a restraint on Christian canonical claims rather than as a complete solution.

Church, 'Hebrews and the Question of Supersessionism,' Oxford 2024 official abstract and metadata, pp. 167-180

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus

Open Scriptures

Open Scriptures, release 2.2

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NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes

Biblical Studies Press

eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31

Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.

Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 19:9-18

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modern critical open study guide

Leviticus Part 2: Day of Atonement, Holiness Code, and Love of Neighbor

Joel S. Baden and Yale Bible Study

Yale Divinity School, 2023 course edition

Supports: Open critical orientation to Day of Atonement, holiness, social law, calendar, land, release, covenant, and final valuations.

Exact location: Yale Bible Study, 'Leviticus Part 2,' complete guide sections on Leviticus 16, the Holiness Code, love of neighbor, festivals, land, covenant, and vows, applied to Leviticus 19:9-18

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modern christian scholarly handbook chapter abstract

Hebrews and the Question of Supersessionism

Philip Church

The Oxford Handbook of Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles, Oxford University Press, 2024

Supports: Publisher-visible framing of scholarly disagreement about Hebrews and supersessionism, used as a restraint on Christian canonical claims rather than as a complete solution.

Exact location: Church, 'Hebrews and the Question of Supersessionism,' Oxford 2024 official abstract and metadata, pp. 167-180

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