Deuteronomy:17:14-20

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* When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God gives thee and shalt inherit it and shalt dwell therein and shalt say , I will set a king over me like all the Gentiles that [are ] round about me ; * Thou shalt surely appoint as king over thee the one whom the LORD thy God shall choose ; [one ] from among thy brethren shalt thou set as king over thee ; thou may not set a stranger over thee , who [is ] not thy brother . * Only he shall not multiply horses to himself , nor cause the people to return to Egypt , to the end that he should multiply horses ; for the LORD has said unto you , Ye shall not procure to return any more to that way . * Neither shall he multiply wives unto himself , that his heart turn not away ; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver or gold . * And it shall be when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom that he shall cause a copy of this second law to be written in a book in the presence of the priests the Levites ; * and it shall be near unto him , and he shall read in it 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 , * 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 sons , in the midst of Israel .:

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