nkjv Deuteronomy:16:18-18:13

nkjv@Deuteronomy:16:18 @ "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:16:19 @ You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:16:20 @ You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:16:21 @ "You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:16:22 @ You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:1 @ "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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:2 @ "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,

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:3 @ 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,

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:4 @ 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,

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:5 @ 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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:6 @ 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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:7 @ 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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:8 @ "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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:9 @ 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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:10 @ 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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:11 @ 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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:12 @ 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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:13 @ And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:14 @ "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,'

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:15 @ 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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:16 @ 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.'

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:17 @ Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:18 @ "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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:19 @ 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,

nkjv@Deuteronomy:17:20 @ 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.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:1 @ "The priests, the Levites--all the tribe of Levi--shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:2 @ Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He said to them.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:3 @ "And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:4 @ The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:5 @ For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:6 @ "So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from where he dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD chooses,

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:7 @ then he may serve in the name of the LORD his God as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:8 @ They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:9 @ "When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:10 @ There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:11 @ or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:12 @ For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

nkjv@Deuteronomy:18:13 @ You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.

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