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Chapter 17 |
| 1 | Thou shalt not
sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or
any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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| 2 | If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy
God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the
LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, |
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3 | And hath gone and served
other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of
heaven, which I have not commanded; |
| 4 | And it be told thee, and thou
hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the
thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: |
| 5 | Then shalt
thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked
thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with
stones, till they die. |
| 6 | At the mouth of two witnesses, or three
witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth
of one witness he shall not be put to death. |
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7 | The hands of the
witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands
of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. |
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If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood,
between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of
controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the
place which the LORD thy God shall choose; |
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9 | And thou shalt come unto
the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and
inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment: |
| 10 | And thou
shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD
shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all
that they inform thee: |
| 11 | According to the sentence of the law which
they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell
thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall
show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. |
| 12 | And the man
that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth
to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man
shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. |
| 13 | And all
the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. |
| 14 | When
thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt
possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me,
like as all the nations that are about me; |
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15 | Thou shalt in any wise
set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy
brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over
thee, which is not thy brother. |
| 16 | But he shall not multiply
horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he
should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall
henceforth return no more that way. |
| 17 | Neither shall he multiply
wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly
multiply to himself silver and gold. |
| 18 | And it shall be, when he
sitteth upon 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: |
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And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life:
that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law
and these statutes, to do them: |
| 20 | That his heart be not lifted
up above his brethren, and that he turn not 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. |
