Deuteronomy:17

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* Thou shall not sacrifice to LORD thy God an ox , or a sheep , in which is a blemish [or ] anything bad , for that is an abomination to LORD thy God . * If there be found in the midst of thee , within any of thy gates which LORD thy God gives thee , man or woman , who does that which is evil in the sight of LORD thy God , in transgressing his covenant , * and has gone and served other gods , and worshipped them , or the sun , or the moon , or any of the host of heaven , which I have not commanded , * and it be told thee , and thou have heard of it , then shall thou inquire diligently . And , behold , if it be true , and the thing certain , that such abomination is wrought in Israel , * then thou shall bring forth that man or that woman , who has done this evil thing , to thy gates , even the man or the woman , and thou shall stone them to death with stones . * At the mouth of two witnesses , or three witnesses , shall he who is to die be put to death . He shall not be put to death at the mouth of one witness . * The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death , and afterward the hand of all the people . So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee . * 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 thou shall arise , and get thee up to the plac * And thou shall come to the priests the Levites , and to the judge who shall be in those days , and thou shall inquire . And they shall show thee the sentence of judgment . * And thou shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which LORD shall choose . And thou shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee , * according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach thee , and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee , thou shall do . Thou shall not turn aside from the sentence , which they shall show thee , to the right hand , nor * And the man who does presumptuously , in not hearkening to the priest who stands to minister there before LORD thy God , or to the judge , even that man shall die , and thou shall put away the evil from Israel . * And all the people shall hear , and fear , and do no more presumptuously . * When thou have come to the land which LORD thy God gives thee , and shall possess it , and shall dwell in it , and shall say , I will set a king over me like all the nations that are round about me , * thou shall surely set him king over thee whom LORD thy God shall choose . Thou shall set a king over thee from among thy brothers . Thou may not put a foreigner 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 may multiply horses , inasmuch as LORD has said to you , Ye shall henceforth return no more that way . * Neither shall he multiply wives to himself , that his heart turn not away . Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold . * And it shall be , when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom , that he shall write for him a copy of this law in a book , out of [it ] before the priests the Levites , * and it shall be with him . And he shall read in it all the days of his life , that he may learn to fear LORD his God , to keep all the words of this law and these statutes , to do them , * that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers , 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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