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Deuteronomy 17 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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“You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep which has a defect or any [fn]blemish, for that is an abominable thing to Yahweh your God.

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“If there is found in your midst, in any of your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, by trespassing against His covenant,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:3 - and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4 - and if it is told to you and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. Behold, if it is true and the matter is confirmed that this abomination has been done in Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:5 - then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates, that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them, and they will die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:6 - “On the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the mouth of one witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:7 - “The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

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“If any case is too difficult for you to judge, between [fn]one kind of homicide or another, between [fn]one kind of lawsuit or another, and between [fn]one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:9 - “So you shall come to the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them, and they will declare to you the judgment in the case.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:10 - “And you shall do according to the [fn]terms of the judgment which they declare to you from that place which Yahweh chooses; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they teach you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:11 - “According to the [fn]terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - “And the man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to minister to Yahweh your God, or to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:13 - “Then all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.

Statutes for the King

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“When you enter the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - you shall surely set a king over you whom Yahweh your God chooses, one from among your brothers you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - “Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses. Yahweh has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:17 - “And he shall not multiply wives for himself, [fn]or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

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“Now it will be when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll [fn]in the presence of the Levitical priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:19 - “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, [fn]to carefully observe all the words of this law and these statutes,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.
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Lit evil thing
Lit blood to blood
Lit judgment to judgment
Lit stroke to stroke
Lit mouth
Lit mouth
Lit nor
Lit from before
Lit to keep to do them
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Deuteronomy Chapter 17 — Additional Translations:

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