Deuteronomy 17:20 - Prayer Tents

17Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.H2076H3068H430H7794H7716H3971H7451H1697H8441H3068H430 2If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant,H4672H7130H259H8179H3068H430H5414H376H802H6213H7451H5869H3068H430H5674H1285 3and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars in the sky,H3212H5647H312H430H7812H8121H3394H6635H8064H6680 4and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,H5046H8085H1875H3190H571H1697H3559H8441H6213H3478 5take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.H3318H376H802H6213H7451H1697H8179H376H802H5619H68H4191 6On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.H6310H8147H5707H7969H5707H4191H4191H6310H259H5707H4191 7The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.H3027H5707H7223H4191H314H3027H5971H1197H7451H1197H7130 8If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults—take them to the place the LORD your God will choose.H1697H6381H4941H1818H1818H1779H1779H5061H5061H1697H7379H8179H6965H5927H4725H3068H430H977 9Go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict.H935H3548H3881H8199H3117H1875H5046H1697H4941 10You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do.H6213H6310H1697H4725H3068H977H5046H8104H6213H3384 11Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.H6310H8451H3384H4941H559H6213H5493H1697H5046H3225H8040 12Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.H376H6213H2087H8085H3548H5975H8334H3068H430H8199H376H4191H1197H7451H3478 13All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.H5971H8085H3372H2102 14When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, "Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,"H935H776H3068H430H5414H3423H3427H559H7760H4428H1471H5439 15be sure to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your own people. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.H7760H7760H4428H3068H430H977H7130H251H7760H4428H3201H5414H5237H376H251 16The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, "You are not to go back that way again."H7235H5483H5971H7725H4714H7235H5483H3068H559H3254H7725H1870 17He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.H7235H802H3824H5493H3966H7235H3701H2091 18When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests.H3427H3678H4467H3789H4932H8451H5612H6440H3548H3881 19It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decreesH7121H3117H2416H3925H3372H3068H430H8104H1697H8451H2706H6213 20and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.H3824H7311H251H5493H4687H3225H8040H748H3117H4467H1121H7130H3478