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Deuteronomy 17 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Administration of Justice

Deu 17:1

Deu 17:1“You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep which has a blemish or any [fn]defect, for that is a detestable thing to the LORD your God.

Deu 17:2

Deu 17:2“If there is found in your midst, in any of your [fn]towns, which the LORD your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, by transgressing His covenant,

Deu 17:3

Deu 17:3and 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,

Deu 17:4

Deu 17:4and if it is told you and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. Behold, if it is true and the thing certain that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,

Deu 17:5

Deu 17:5then 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 to [fn]death.

Deu 17:6

Deu 17:6“On the [fn]evidence 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 [fn]evidence of one witness.

Deu 17:7

Deu 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.

Deu 17:8

Deu 17:8“If any case is too difficult for you to decide, 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 [fn]courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

Deu 17:9

Deu 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 verdict in the case.

Deu 17:10

Deu 17:10“You shall do according to the [fn]terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the LORD chooses; and you shall be careful to observe according to all that they teach you.

Deu 17:11

Deu 17:11“According to the [fn]terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict 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.

Deu 17:12

Deu 17:12“The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Deu 17:13

Deu 17:13“Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will not act presumptuously again.

Deu 17:14

Deu 17:14“When you enter the land which the LORD 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,’

Deu 17:15

Deu 17:15you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your [fn]countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your [fn]countryman.

Deu 17:16

Deu 17:16“Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’

Deu 17:17

Deu 17:17“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.

Deu 17:18

Deu 17:18“Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll [fn]in the presence of the Levitical priests.

Deu 17:19

Deu 17:19“It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, [fn]by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,

Deu 17:20

Deu 17:20that his heart may not be lifted up above his [fn]countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: evil thing
Literally: gates
Literally: death with stones
Literally: mouth
Literally: blood to blood
Literally: judgment to judgment
Literally: stroke to stroke
Literally: gates
Literally: mouth
Literally: mouth
Literally: brother(s)
Literally: nor
Literally: from before
Literally: to keep to do them
Literally: brothers
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