17 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 enquired 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 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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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.