Deuteronomy:17

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* "You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep which has any blemish or defect , for that is an abomination to the LORD your God . * "If there is found among you , within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you , a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God , in transgressing His covenant , * who 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 it is told you , and you hear of it , then you shall inquire diligently . And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel , * then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing , and shall stone to death that man or woman with stones . * Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses ; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness . * The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death , and afterward the hands of all the people . So you shall put away the evil from among you . * "If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge , between degrees of guilt for bloodshed , between one judgment or another , or between one punishment or another , matters of controversy within your gates , then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses . * And you shall come to the priests , the Levites , and to the judge there in those days , and inquire of them ; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment . * You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which the LORD chooses . And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you . * According to the sentence of the law in which they instruct you , according to the judgment which they tell you , you shall do ; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you . * Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God , or the judge , that man shall die . So you shall put away the evil from Israel . * And all the people shall hear and fear , and no longer act presumptuously . * "When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you , and possess it and dwell in it , and say , "I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me ,' * you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses ; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you ; you may not set a foreigner over you , who is not your brother . * But he shall not multiply horses for himself , nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses , for the LORD has said to you , "You shall not return that way again .' * Neither shall he multiply wives for himself , lest his heart turn away ; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself . * "Also it shall be , when he sits on the throne of his kingdom , that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book , from the one before the priests , the Levites . * And it shall be with him , and he shall read it all the days of his life , that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes , * that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren , that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left , and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom , he and his children in the midst of Israel .

---