Deuteronomy Chapter 17

Deuteronomy Chapter 17
1 Thou shalt offer unto the Lord thy God
no bullock nor sheep wherein is blemish
or any evil favored thing: for that is an
abomination unto the Lord thy God.
2 If there be found among you in any of
thy cities, 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 worshiped them: as the sun, or the
moon, or any of the host of heaven,
which I have not commanded, 4 And it
be told unto thee, and thou hast heard it,
then shalt thou inquire diligently: and if
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, whether it
be man or woman, and shalt stone them
with stones, till they die.
6 At the mouth of two or three witnesses
shall he that is worthy of death, die: but
at the mouth of one witness, he shall not
die. 7 The hands of the witnesses shall
be first upon him, to kill him: and
afterward the hands of all the people: so
thou shalt take the wicked away from
among you.
8 If there rise a matter too hard for thee
in judgment between blood and blood,
between plea and plea, between plague
and plague, in the matters of controversy
within thy gates, then shalt thou arise,
and go up unto the place which the Lord
thy God shall choose,
9 And thou shalt come unto the priests of
the Levites, and unto the judge that shall
be in those days, and ask, and they shall
show thee the sentence of judgment,
10 And thou shalt do according to that
thing which they of that place (which the
Lord hath chosen) show thee, and thou
shalt observe to do according to all that
they inform thee.
11 According to the law, which they
shall teach thee, and according to the
judgment which they shall tell thee, shalt
thou do: thou shalt not decline from the
thing which they shall show thee, neither
to the right hand, nor to the left. 12 And
that man that will do presumptuously, not
hearkening unto the priest (that standeth
before the Lord thy God to minister
there) or unto the judge, that man shall
die, and thou shalt take away evil from
Israel.
13 So all the people shall hear and fear,
and do no more presumptuously. 14
When thou shalt come unto the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and
shalt possess it, and dwell therein, if
thou say, I will set a king over me, like
as all the nations that are about me,
15 Then thou shalt make him king over
thee, whom the Lord thy God shall
choose: from among thy brethren shalt
thou make a king over thee: thou shalt
not set a stranger over thee, which is not
thy brother.
16 In any wise he shall not prepare him
many horses, nor bring the people again
to Egypt, for to increase the number of
horses, seeing the Lord hath said unto
you, Ye shall henceforth go no more
again that way.
17 Neither shall he take him many
wives, lest his heart turn away, neither
shall he gather him much silver and gold.
18 And when he shall sit upon the throne
of his kingdom, then shall he write him
this law repeated in a book, by the
priests of the Levites. 19 And it shall be
with him, and he shall read therein all
days of his life, that he may learn to fear
the Lord his God, and to keep all the
words of this Law, and these ordinances,
for to do them:
20 That his heart be not lifted up above
his brethren, and that he turn not from the
commandment, to the right hand or to the
left, but that he may prolong his days in
his kingdom, he, and his sons in the
midst of Israel.