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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.
02 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,
03 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;
04 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of
it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be
true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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;
09 And thou shalt come unto the priests the
Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in
those days, and enquire; and they shall shew 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 shew thee; and thou shalt observe to
do according to all that they inform thee:
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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 shew 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;
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:
19 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.
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