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Thou shalt not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God any ox, or◦ sheep◦, in which there is a blemish, or any bad thing; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
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If there be··found among you, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God gives thee, man◦ or woman, that has done evil in the eyes of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing His covenant,
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and has gone and served other gods, and bowed··down to them, and to the sun, or to the moon, or to all the army of the heavens, which I have not commanded;
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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 done in Israel;
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then thou shalt bring··out that◦ man◦ or that◦ woman, who has done this evil thing, to▵ thy gates, even the man◦ or the woman, and shalt stone◦ them with stones, and they shall die.
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At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who should die be put··to··death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put··to··death.
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The hands of the witnesses shall be first on◦ him to put· him ·to··death, and afterwards the hands of all the people. And thou shalt sweep··away the evil from among you.
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If a thing is wonderful from thee for a judgment, between blood for blood, between cause for cause, and between blow for blow, things of dispute in thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and go··up into the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose.
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And thou shalt come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those◦ days, and inquire; and they shall tell thee the word of judgment.
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And thou shalt do according to the mouth of the word which they shall··tell thee from that◦ place which Jehovah shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they instruct thee,
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according to the mouth of the law which they shall instruct thee, and according to the judgment which they shall say to thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn··aside from the word which they shall tell thee, to the right··hand, nor to the left.
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And the man◦ who does presumptuously instead of hearkening to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah thy God, or to the judge, even that◦ man◦ shall··die; and thou shalt sweep··away the evil from Israel.
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And all the people shall hear, and fear, and not do··presumptuously any more.
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When◦ thou art come to▵ the land which Jehovah thy God gives thee, and shalt possess her, and shalt dwell in her, and shalt say, I will set over me a king, as all the nations that are around me;
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setting thou shalt set over thee a king, him whom Jehovah thy God shall choose; one from among thy brothers shalt thou set over thee as king: thou mayest not put◦ over thee a foreign man◦, him◦ who is not thy brother.
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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 Jehovah has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.
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And he shall not multiply wives to himself, and his heart shall not turn··aside; and silver and gold he shall not multiply for himself exceedingly.
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And it shall be, as he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a second copy* of this law in a book from that which is before the priests, the Levites;
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and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
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that his heart be not exalted above his brothers, and that he turn· not ·aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left hand; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his sons, in the midst◦ of Israel.
