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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 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: 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 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.