Deuteronomy:6:4-9
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and if it is told you and you have heard of it ,
then you shall inquire thoroughly .
Behold ,
if it is true and the thing certain that this detestable thing has been done in Israel ,
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then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates ,
that is ,
the man or the woman ,
and you shall stone them to death .
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On the evidence of two witnesses or three witnesses ,
he who is to die shall be put to death ;
he shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness .
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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 your midst .
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If any case is too difficult for you to decide ,
between one kind of homicide or another ,
between one kind of lawsuit or another ,
and between one kind of assault or another ,
being cases of dispute in your courts ,
then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses .
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So you shall come to the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days ,
and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case .
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You shall do according to the terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the LORD chooses ;
and you shall be careful to observe according to all that they teach you .
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According to the terms of the law which they teach you ,
and according to the verdict which they tell you ,
you shall do ;
you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you ,
to the right or the left .
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The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God ,
nor to the judge ,
that man shall die ;
thus you shall purge the evil from Israel .
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Then all the people will hear and be afraid ,
and will not act presumptuously again .
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When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you ,
and you possess it and live in it ,
and you say , '
I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me ,'
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you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses ,
one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves ;
you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman .
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Moreover ,
he shall not multiply horses for himself ,
nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses ,
since the LORD has said to you , '
You shall never again return that way .'
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He shall not multiply wives for himself ,
or else his heart will turn away ;
nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself .
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Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom ,
he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests .
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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 ,
by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes ,
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that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment ,
to the right or the left ,
so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel .
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The Levitical priests ,
the whole tribe of Levi ,
shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel ;
they shall eat the LORD '
S offerings by fire and His portion .
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They shall have no inheritance among their countrymen ;
the LORD is their inheritance ,
as He promised them .
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Now this shall be the priests '
due from the people ,
from those who offer a sacrifice ,
either an ox or a sheep ,
of which they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach .
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You shall give him the first fruits of your grain ,
your new wine ,
and your oil ,
and the first shearing of your sheep .
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For the LORD your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes ,
to stand and serve in the name of the LORD forever .
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Now if a Levite comes from any of your towns throughout Israel where he resides ,
and comes whenever he desires to the place which the LORD chooses ,
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then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God ,
like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD .
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They shall eat equal portions ,
except what they receive from the sale of their fathers '
estates .
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When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you ,
you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations .
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There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire ,
one who uses divination ,
one who practices witchcraft ,
or one who interprets omens ,
or a sorcerer ,
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or one who casts a spell ,
or a medium ,
or a spiritist ,
or one who calls up the dead .
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For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD ;
and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you .
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You shall be blameless before the LORD your God .
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For those nations ,
which you shall dispossess ,
listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners ,
but as for you ,
the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so .
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The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you ,
from your countrymen ,
you shall listen to him .
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This is according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly ,
saying , '
Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God ,
let me not see this great fire anymore ,
or I will die .'
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The LORD said to me , '
They have spoken well .
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I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you ,
and I will put My words in his mouth ,
and he shall speak to them all that I command him .
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It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name ,
I Myself will require it of him .
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But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak ,
or which he speaks in the name of other gods ,
that prophet shall die .'
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You may say in your heart , '
How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken ?'
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When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD ,
if the thing does not come about or come true ,
that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken .
The prophet has spoken it presumptuously ;
you shall not be afraid of him .