Deuteronomy:16:18-18:13
web@Deuteronomy:16:18 @ You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
web@Deuteronomy:16:19 @ You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
web@Deuteronomy:16:20 @ You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
web@Deuteronomy:16:21 @ You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourselves.
web@Deuteronomy:16:22 @ Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.
web@Deuteronomy:17:1 @ You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
web@Deuteronomy:17:2 @ If there is found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,
web@Deuteronomy:17:3 @ and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;
web@Deuteronomy:17:4 @ and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,
web@Deuteronomy:17:5 @ then you shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
web@Deuteronomy:17:6 @ At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
web@Deuteronomy:17:7 @ The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
web@Deuteronomy:17:8 @ If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;
web@Deuteronomy:17:9 @ and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
web@Deuteronomy:17:10 @ You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
web@Deuteronomy:17:11 @ according to the tenor 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, nor to the left.
web@Deuteronomy:17:12 @ The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.
web@Deuteronomy:17:13 @ All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
web@Deuteronomy:17:14 @ When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me";
web@Deuteronomy:17:15 @ you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
web@Deuteronomy:17:16 @ Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, "You shall not go back that way again."
web@Deuteronomy:17:17 @ Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
web@Deuteronomy:17:18 @ It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
web@Deuteronomy:17:19 @ and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
web@Deuteronomy:17:20 @ that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn 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.
web@Deuteronomy:18:1 @ The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.
web@Deuteronomy:18:2 @ They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
web@Deuteronomy:18:3 @ This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
web@Deuteronomy:18:4 @ The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
web@Deuteronomy:18:5 @ For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.
web@Deuteronomy:18:6 @ If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
web@Deuteronomy:18:7 @ then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
web@Deuteronomy:18:8 @ They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony.
web@Deuteronomy:18:9 @ When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
web@Deuteronomy:18:10 @ There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,
web@Deuteronomy:18:11 @ or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
web@Deuteronomy:18:12 @ For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.
web@Deuteronomy:18:13 @ You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
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