Deuteronomy, Chapter 17, King James Bible

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Deuteronomy, chapter seventeen. Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord
thy God, any bullock or sheep, or in his blemish,
or any evil favoredness, For that is an abomination unto
the Lord thy God. If there be found among you
within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God

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giveth thee man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in
the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
and hath gone and served other gods and worshiped them,
either the Sun or moon, or any of the host
of heaven, which I have not commanded. And it be
told thee and thou hast heard of it and inquired diligently,

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And behold it be true, and the thing certain, that
such abomination is wrought in Israel. Then shalt thou bring
forth that man or that woman which have committed that
wicked thing unto Thy gaits even that man or that woman,
and shalt stone them with stones till they die. At
the mouth too widnesses or three witnesses, shall he that

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is worthy of death be put to death. But at
the mouth of one witness he shall not be put
to death. 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. If there arise a matter
too hard for THEE in judgment between blood and blood,

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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. And thou shalt come unto the priest,
the levites, and unto the judge that shall be in
those days, and inquire, and they shall show THEE the

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sentence of judgment. And thou shalt do according to the
sentence which the day of that place which the Lord
shall choose shall show THEE. And thou shalt observe to
do according to all that they inform THEE, 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

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which they shall show THEE to the right hand nor
to the left. 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, and all the people shall hear

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and fear and do no more presumptuously. 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 is all
the nations that are about me. Thou shalt in anywise
set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God
shall choose one from among thy brethren. Shalt thou set

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king over thee. Thou mayst not set a stranger over
thee which is not thy brother. 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. Neither shall he multiply

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wives to himself, that his heart turn not away. Neither
shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold 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 priest the Levites, and it shall be with him,
and he shall read therein all the days of his life,

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that he may learn to fear the Lord his God,
to keep all the words of this Law and these statues,
to do them, 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,