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.
