Deuteronomy:17

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* Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any ] bullock , or sheep , wherein is (note :)You shall not serve God for selfish means as the hypocrites do .(:note ) blemish , [or ] any evilfavouredness : for that [is ] an abomination unto the LORD thy God . * If there be found among you , within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee , man or (note :)Showing that the crime cannot be excused by the frailty of the person .(:note ) woman , that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God , in transgressing his covenant , * And hath gone and served other gods , and worshipped them , either the sun , or moon , or any of the host of heaven , which I have not (note :)By which he condemns all religion and serving of God which God has not commanded .(:note ) commanded ; * And it be tolde vnto thee , and thou hast heard it , then shalt thou inquire diligently : and if it be true , and the thing certaine , that such abomination is wrought in Israel , * Then shalt thou bring foorth that man , or that woman (which haue committed that wicked thing ) vnto thy gates , whether it be man or woman , &amp ; shalt stone them with stones , til they die . * At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is woorthie of death , die : but at the mouth of one witnesse , he shall not die . * The hands of the (note :)By which they declared that they testify the truth .(:note ) witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death , and afterward the hands of all the To signify a common consent to maintain God 's honour and true religion . people . So thou shalt put the evil away from among you . * If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgemet betweene blood &amp ; blood , betweene plea and plea , betweene plague and plague , in the matters of controuersie within thy gates , then shalt thou arise , and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse , * And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites , and unto the (note :)Who will sentence as the priests counsel him by the Law of God .(:note ) judge that shall be in those days , and enquire ; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment : * And thou shalt do according to that thing which they of that place (which the Lorde hath chosen ) shewe thee , and thou shalt obserue to doe according to all that they informe thee . * According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee , and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee , (note :)You shall obey their sentence that the controversy may have an end .(:note ) thou shalt do : thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee , [to ] the right hand , nor [to ] the left . * And the man that will do presumptuously , and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to (note :)So long as he is the true minister of God , and pronounces according to his word .(:note ) minister there before the LORD thy God , or unto the judge , even that man shall die : and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel . * So all the people shall heare and feare , and doe no more presumptuously . * Whe thou shalt come vnto ye land which the Lorde thy God giueth thee , and shalt possesse it , and dwell therein , if thou say , I will set a King ouer me , like as all the nations that are about me , * Thou shalt in any wise set [him ] king over thee , whom the LORD thy God shall choose : [one ] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee : thou mayest not set a (note :)Who is not from your nation , lest he change true religion into idolatry , and bring you to slavery .(:note ) stranger over thee , which [is ] not thy brother . * But he shall not multiply horses to himself , nor cause the people to return to (note :)To avenge their injuries and to take their best horses from them ; ( 1Ki_10:28 ).(:note ) Egypt , to the end that he should multiply horses : forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you , Ye shall henceforth return no more that way . * Neither shall he multiply wives to himself , that his heart (note :)From the Law of God .(:note ) turn not away : neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold . * And it shall be , when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom , that he shall write him a copy of this (note :)Meaning , Deuteronomy .(:note ) law in a book out of [that which is ] before the He shall cause it to be written by them , or he shall write it by their example . priests the Levites : * And it shall be with him , and he shall reade therein all daies of his life , that he may learne to feare the Lord his God , &amp ; to keepe all ye words of this Lawe , and these ordinances for to doe them : * That his heart be not lifted up above his (note :)By which is meant that kings should love their subjects as nature causes one brother to love another .(:note ) 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 children , in the midst of Israel .

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