bes - Deuteronomy:16:18-18:13

bes@Deuteronomy:16:18 @ Thou shalt make for thyself judges and officers in thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee in thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement:

bes@Deuteronomy:16:19 @ they shall not wrest judgement, nor favour persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

bes@Deuteronomy:16:20 @ Thou shalt justly pursue justice, that ye may live, and go in and inherit the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.

bes@Deuteronomy:16:21 @ Thou shalt not (note:)Gr. make(:note) plant for thyself a grove; thou shalt not plant for thyself any tree near the altar of thy God.

bes@Deuteronomy:16:22 @ Thou shalt not set up for thyself a pillar, which the Lord thy God hates.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:1 @ Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a calf or a sheep, in which there is a blemish, or any evil thing; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:2 @ And if there should be found in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord thy God, so as to transgress his covenant,

bes@Deuteronomy:17:3 @ and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded thee not to do,

bes@Deuteronomy:17:4 @ and it be told thee, and thou shalt have enquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel;

bes@Deuteronomy:17:5 @ then shalt thou bring out that man, or that woman, and ye shall stone them with stones, and they shall die.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:6 @

bes@Deuteronomy:17:7 @ And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shalt thou remove the evil one from among yourselves.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:8 @ And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgement, (note:)Gr. blood between blood, etc.(:note) between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgement in your cities;

bes@Deuteronomy:17:9 @ then thou shalt arise and go up to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out the matter and report the judgement to thee.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:10 @ And thou shalt act according to the thing which they shall report to thee out of the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt observe to do all whatsoever shall have been by law appointed to thee.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:11 @ Thou shalt do according to the law and to the judgement which they shall declare to thee: thou shalt not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to thee.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:12 @ And the man whosoever shall act in haughtiness, so as not to hearken to the priest who stands to minister in the name of the Lord thy God, or the judge who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and thou shalt remove the evil one out of Israel.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:13 @ And all the people shall hear and fear, and shall no more commit impiety.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:14 @ And when thou shalt enter into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, and shalt inherit it and dwell in it, and shalt say, I will set a ruler over me, as also the other nations round about me;

bes@Deuteronomy:17:15 @ thou shalt surely set over thee the ruler whom the Lord God shall choose: of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a ruler; thou shalt not have power to set over thee a stranger, because he is not thy brother.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:16 @ For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses; for the Lord said, Ye shall not any more turn back by that way.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:17 @ And he shall not multiply to himself wives, lest his heart (note:)Gr. change(:note) turn away; and he shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

bes@Deuteronomy:17:18 @ And when he shall be established in his government, then shall he write for himself this repetition of the law into a book by the hands of the priests the Levites;

bes@Deuteronomy:17:19 @ and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these commandments, and to observe these ordinances:

bes@Deuteronomy:17:20 @ that his heart be not lifted up (note:)Fr. from. Hebrews.—m(:note) above his brethren, that he depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.

bes@Deuteronomy:18:1 @ The priests, the Levites, even the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the burnt-offerings of the Lord are their inheritance, they shall eat them.

bes@Deuteronomy:18:2 @ And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself is his portion, as he said to him.

bes@Deuteronomy:18:3 @ And this is the due of the priests in the things coming from the people from those who offer sacrifices, whether it be a calf or a sheep; and thou shalt give the shoulder to the priest, and the cheeks, and the great intestine:

bes@Deuteronomy:18:4 @ and the first-fruits of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine oil; and thou shalt give to him the first-fruits of the fleeces of thy sheep:

bes@Deuteronomy:18:5 @ because the Lord has chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand before the Lord thy God, to minister and bless in his name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.

bes@Deuteronomy:18:6 @ And if a Levite come from one of the cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as his mind desires, to the place which (note:)i. e. God(:note) he shall have chosen,

bes@Deuteronomy:18:7 @ he shall minister to the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites, who stand there present before the Lord thy God.

bes@Deuteronomy:18:8 @ He shall eat an allotted portion, besides the sale of his hereditary property.

bes@Deuteronomy:18:9 @ And when thou shalt have entered into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

bes@Deuteronomy:18:10 @ There shall not be found in thee one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who (note:)Gr. divines(:note) uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,

bes@Deuteronomy:18:11 @ a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and observer of signs, questioning the dead.

bes@Deuteronomy:18:12 @ For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before thy face.

bes@Deuteronomy:18:13 @ Thou shalt be perfect before the Lord thy God.