“1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or
sheep, wherein is blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an
abomination unto the LORD thy God. 2 If there be found among you, within
any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that
hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in
transgressing his covenant, 3 And hath gone and served other gods, and
worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven,
which I have not commanded; 4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard
[of it], and enquired diligently, and, behold, [it be] true, [and] the
thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought in Israel: 5 Then
shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that
wicked thing, unto thy gates, [even] that man or that woman, and shalt
stone them with stones, till they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses,
or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death;
[but] at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The
hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away
from among you.”
“8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between
blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke,
[being] matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise,
and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; 9
And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge
that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the
sentence of judgment: 10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence,
which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee;
and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and
according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do:
thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee,
[to] the right hand, nor [to] the left. 12 And the man that will do
presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to
minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man
shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. 13 And all the
people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.”
“14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I
will set a king over me, like as all the nations that [are] about me; 15
Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy God
shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over
thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which [is] not thy
brother. 16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the
people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses:
forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no
more that way. 17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his
heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver
and gold. 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his
kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of
[that which is] before the priests the Levites: 19 And it shall be with
him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may
learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and
these statutes, to do them: 20 That his heart be not lifted up above his
brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the
right hand, or [to] the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days
in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.”
(Deuteronomy 17:1-20 AV)
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