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Leviticus chapter 19, verse 18,

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people,

but you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

I am the Lord.

This is so good.

So this whole chapter starts with God saying to his people,

you shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy,

which is our refrain we see throughout Lividicus

and obviously throughout the Bible that God calls us to holiness.

What's interesting in Leviticus chapter 19 is the way that call or command to be holy

then flows directly into the way you treat others and culminates in this verse in verse 18.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

So holiness is loving your neighbor as yourself.

And the specific things that Leviticus 19 talks about include not stealing or dealing falsely,

not oppressing your neighbor, not doing injustice to your neighbor,

but doing justice, and even specifically caring for the poor and the sojourner, leaving

some of the harvest of the land to provide for the sojourner and the poor, all of this is clearly stated in God's

law here in Leviticus in a way that throughout the rest of the Old Testament and then into the New

Testament, we see this picture among God's people. The prophets are continually saying, God commands us to care for the poor,

to care for the sojourner, to do justice, to love mercy. And it's why when we get to the New

Testament, Jesus summarizes all of this with those two greatest commandments, love God with all your

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