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Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to the Lord thy God .
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When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates , which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God , and transgress his covenant,
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So as to go and serve strange gods , and adore them, the sun and the moon . and all the host of heaven , which I have not commanded :
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And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is committed in Israel :
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Thou shalt bring forth the man or the woman , who have committed that most wicked thing, to the gates of thy city, and they shall be stoned .
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By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness against him.
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The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: that thou mayst take away the evil out of the midst of thee.
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If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood , cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise , and go up to the place , which the Lord thy God shall choose.
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And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race, and to the judge , that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and they shall shew thee the truth of the judgment .
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And thou shalt do whatsoever they shall say , that preside in the place , which the Lord shall choose, and what they shall teach thee,
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According to his law; and thou shalt follow their sentence: neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand .
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But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of the priest , who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God , and the decree of the judge , that man shall die , and thou shalt take away the evil from Israel :
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And all the people hearing it shall fear , that no one afterwards swell with pride.
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When thou art come into the land , which the Lord thy God will give thee, and possessest it, and shalt say : I will set a king over me, as all nations have that are round about :
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Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the number of thy brethren . Thou mayst not make a man of another nation king, that is not thy brother .
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And when he is made king, he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor lead back the people into Egypt , being lifted up with the number of his horsemen, especially since the Lord hath commanded you to return no more the same way .
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He shall not have many wives , that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold .
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But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall copy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume , taking the copy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,
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And he shall have it with him, and shall read it all the days of his life , that he may learn to fear the Lord his God , and keep his words and ceremonies, that are commanded in the law ;
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And that his heart be not lifted up with pride over his brethren , nor decline to the right or to the left, that he and his sons may reign a long time over Israel .