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Deuteronomy 17
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Administration of Justice

17"You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep which has a blemish or any defect, for that is a detestable thing to the LORD your God.H2076H3068H430H7794H7716H3971H7451H1697H8441H3068H430 2"If there is found in your midst, in any of your towns, which the LORD your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, by transgressing His covenant,H4672H7130H259H8179H3068H430H5414H376H802H6213H7451H5869H3068H430H5674H1285 3and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,H3212H5647H312H430H7812H8121H3394H6635H8064H6680 4and if it is told you and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. And behold, if it is true and the thing certain that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,H5046H8085H1875H3190H571H1697H3559H8441H6213H3478 5then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed, to your gates, [that is,] the man or the woman, and you shall stone them to death.H3318H376H802H6213H7451H1697H8179H376H802H5619H68H4191 6"On the evidence of two witnesses or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.H6310H8147H5707H7969H5707H4191H4191H6310H259H5707H4191 7"The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.H3027H5707H7223H4191H314H3027H5971H1197H7451H1197H7130 8"If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.H1697H6381H4941H1818H1818H1779H1779H5061H5061H1697H7379H8179H6965H5927H4725H3068H430H977 9"So you shall come to the Levitical priest or the judge who is [in office] in those days, and you shall inquire [of them,] and they will declare to you the verdict in the case.H935H3548H3881H8199H3117H1875H5046H1697H4941 10"And you shall do according to the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the LORD chooses; and you shall be careful to observe according to all that they teach you.H6213H6310H1697H4725H3068H977H5046H8104H6213H3384 11"According to the terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.H6310H8451H3384H4941H559H6213H5493H1697H5046H3225H8040 12"And the man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.H376H6213H2087H8085H3548H5975H8334H3068H430H8199H376H4191H1197H7451H3478 13"Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will not act presumptuously again.H5971H8085H3372H2102 14"When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, 'I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,'H935H776H3068H430H5414H3423H3427H559H7760H4428H1471H5439 15you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, [one] from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.H7760H7760H4428H3068H430H977H7130H251H7760H4428H3201H5414H5237H376H251 16"Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never again return that way.'H7235H5483H5971H7725H4714H7235H5483H3068H559H3254H7725H1870 17"Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.H7235H802H3824H5493H3966H7235H3701H2091 18"Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.H3427H3678H4467H3789H4932H8451H5612H6440H3548H3881 19"And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,H7121H3117H2416H3925H3372H3068H430H8104H1697H8451H2706H6213 20that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left; in order that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.H3824H7311H251H5493H4687H3225H8040H748H3117H4467H1121H7130H3478


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