Deuteronomy:17

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* You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God [any ] bull or sheep in which there is a blemish , any evil thing , for that is an abomination to the LORD your God . * If there is found among you , inside any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you , a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God , in breaking His covenant , * and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them , either the sun , or moon , or any [of ] the host of heaven , which I have not commanded , * and if it is told you , and you have heard and inquired carefully , and , behold , it is true and the thing is certain , such abomination is done in Israel ; * then you shall bring forth that man or that woman who has committed that evil thing , to your gates , even that man or that woman , and shall stone them with stones until they die . * At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to death . At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death . * The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death , and afterwards the hands of all the people . So you shall put the evil away from among you . * If a matter [is ] too hard for you in judgment , between blood and blood , between plea and plea , and between stroke and stroke , matters of strife within your gates , then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God shall choose . * And [you ] shall come to the priests of the Levites , and to the judge that shall be in those days , and ask . And they shall declare to you the sentence of judgment . * And you shall do according to the sentence which they declare to you from that place which the LORD shall choose . And you shall be careful to do according to all that they tell you . * According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach you and according to the judgment which they shall tell you , you shall do . You shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you , to the right hand or the left . * And the man that acts proudly and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God , or to the judge , even that man shall die . And you shall put away the evil from Israel . * And all the people shall hear and fear , and not be presumptuous any more . * When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you , and shall possess it and shall live in it and shall say , I will set a king over me , like all the nations around me , * you shall surely set a king over you , whom the LORD your God shall choose . You shall set a king over you from among your brothers . You may not set a stranger over you , who is not your brother . * But he shall not multiply horses to himself , nor cause the people to return to Egypt , so as to multiply horses , because the LORD has said to you , You shall return no more that way from now on . * Nor shall he multiply wives to himself , so that his heart does not turn away . Nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold to himself . * And it shall be , when he sits on the throne of his kingdom , he shall write a copy of this law in a book from before the priests the Levites . * And it shall be with him , and he shall read it all the days of his life , so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God , to keep all the words of this law , and these statutes , to do them , * so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers , and that he does not turn aside from the commandment , to the right or the left , so that he may make his days longer in his kingdom , he and his sons , in the midst of Israel .

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