Thoushalt not sacrificeunto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abominationunto the LORD thy God.
If there be foundamong you, within any of thy gateswhich the LORD thy God giveththee, man or woman, thathathwroughtwickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
And it be toldthee, and thouhastheard of it, and enquireddiligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thingcertain, thatsuchabomination is wrought in Israel:
Thenshaltthoubringforththat man or thatwoman, whichhavecommittedthatwickedthing, unto thy gates, eventhat man or thatwoman, and shaltstonethemwithstones, tillthey die.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or threewitnesses, 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.
The hands of the witnessesshall be firstupon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thoushalt put the evilawayfromamong you.
If therearise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, betweenblood and blood, betweenplea and plea, and betweenstroke and stroke, beingmatters of controversywithin thy gates: thenshaltthouarise, and get thee up into the placewhich the LORD thy God shallchoose;
And thoushaltcomeunto the priests the Levites, and unto the judgethatshall be in thosedays, and enquire; and theyshallshewthee the sentence of judgment:
And thoushalt do according to the sentence, whichthey of thatplacewhich the LORDshallchooseshallshewthee; and thoushaltobserve to do according to all thattheyinformthee:
According to the sentence of the law whichtheyshallteachthee, and according to the judgmentwhichtheyshalltellthee, thoushalt do: thoushalt not declinefrom the sentencewhichtheyshallshewthee, to the righthand, nor to the left.
And the man thatwill do presumptuously, and will not hearkenunto the priestthatstandeth to ministertherebefore the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, eventhat man shall die: and thoushalt put away the evilfromIsrael.
Whenthou art comeunto the landwhich the LORD thy God giveththee, and shaltpossess it, and shaltdwelltherein, and shalt say, I will set a kingover me, like as all the nationsthat are about me;
Thoushalt in any wise set him kingoverthee, whom the LORD thy God shallchoose: one fromamong thy brethrenshaltthou set kingoverthee: thoumayest not set a strangeroverthee, which is not thy brother.
But he shall not multiplyhorses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he shouldmultiplyhorses: forasmuch as the LORDhathsaidunto you, Ye shallhenceforthreturn no morethat way.
And it shall be, when he sittethupon the throne of his kingdom, that he shallwrite him a copy of this law in a book out of thatwhich is before the priests the Levites:
And it shall be with him, and he shallreadtherein 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 thesestatutes, to do them:
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not asidefrom the commandment, to the righthand, 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.