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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. |
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, |
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. |
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. |
8 | 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; |
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; |
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. |