rsv Deuteronomy:16:18-18:13

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

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:19 @ You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:20 @ Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:21 @ "You shall not plant any tree as an Ashe'rah beside the altar of the LORD your God which you shall make.

rsv@Deuteronomy:16:22 @ And you shall not set up a pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:1 @ "You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever; for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:2 @ "If there is found among you, within any of your towns 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 transgressing his covenant,

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:3 @ and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden,

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:4 @ and it is told you and you hear of it; then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done in Israel,

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:5 @ then you shall bring forth to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:6 @ On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses he that is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:7 @ The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:8 @ "If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns which is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God will choose,

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:9 @ and coming to the Levitical priests, and to the judge who is in office in those days, you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:10 @ Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place which the LORD will choose; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you;

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:11 @ according to the instructions which they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the verdict which they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:12 @ The man who acts presumptuously, by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:13 @ And all the people shall hear, and fear, and not act presumptuously again.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:14 @ "When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and then say, `I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me';

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:15 @ you may indeed set as king over you him whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:16 @ Only he must not multiply horses for himself, or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, `You shall never return that way again.'

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:17 @ And he shall not multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply for himself silver and gold.

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:18 @ "And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, from that which is in the charge of the Levitical priests;

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:19 @ and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them;

rsv@Deuteronomy:17:20 @ that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:1 @ "The Levitical priests, that is, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings by fire to the LORD, and his rightful dues.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:2 @ They shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:3 @ And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.

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

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

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:6 @ "And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives--and he may come when he desires--to the place which the LORD will choose,

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:7 @ then he may minister in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow-Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:8 @ They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:9 @ "When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:10 @ There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer,

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:11 @ or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

rsv@Deuteronomy:18:12 @ For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD; and because of these abominable practices the LORD your God is driving them out before you.

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

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