Deuteronomy 17

Do not sacrifice to God your God an ox or a sheep that has on it a blemish, any bad thing, for it {is} an abomination to God your God. \*

If {there} is found among you, in any of your gates that God your God is giving to you, a man or a woman who does evil in the eyes of God your God, transgressing his covenant,

and he followed and served other gods and bowed down to them and to the sun or to the moon or to any of the multitude of the heavens, which I have not commanded,

and {it} is told to you, and you listen, and you investigate thoroughly, and behold, the matter {is} an established truth, this abomination has been done in Israel, \*

then you shall bring that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them with stones, and they shall die.

At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses, he who is to die shall die. He shall not die at the mouth of one witness.

The hand of the witnesses shall be the first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people, and you shall remove the evil from among you. \*

If a case is too difficult for you to judge, between blood and blood, between a lawsuit and a lawsuit, and between an assault and an assault, cases of dispute in your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which God your God will choose it.

And you shall go to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who will be {there} at that time, and you shall inquire, and they will tell you the word of the judgment. \*

And you shall do according to the mouth of the word that they tell you, from that place that God will choose, and keep doing according to all that they teach you.

According to the mouth of the law that they teach you, and according to the judgment that they say to you, you shall do. Do not turn aside from the word that they tell you, right or left. \*

And the man who does arrogantly, not listening to the priest who is standing there to serve God your God, or to the judge, then that man shall die, and you shall remove the evil from Israel.

And all the people will hear and fear and be arrogant no more. \*

When you have come to the land that God your God is giving to you, and you take possession of it and live in it, and you say, ‘I shall set a king over myself, like all the nations that surround me,’

setting, you shall set as king over yourself him whom God your God will choose. You shall set as king over yourself from among your brothers. You shall not put a foreign man, who is not your brother, over yourself. \*

Only he shall not multiply horses for himself, so that he shall not cause the people to return to Egypt so that he may multiply horses, for God said to you, ‘You will no longer return that way again.’

And he shall not multiply wives for himself, and his heart will not turn aside. And he shall not multiply for himself silver and gold excessively. \*

And it will be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, then he shall write for himself in a scroll a copy of this law from to the faces of the priests, the Levites,

and it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he will learn to fear God his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them, \*

so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so that he does not turn aside from the commandments, right or left, so that he will prolong days in his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel. \*