17:1 Thou shalt no sacrifice to the Lord thy
God a calf or a sheep, in which there is a blemish, [or] any evil thing; for
it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
17:2 And if there should be found in any one of thy cities, which the Lord
thy God gives thee, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before
the Lord thy God, so as to transgress his covenant,
17:3 and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or
the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded thee not to do,
17:4 and it be told thee, and thou shalt have enquired diligently, and,
behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in
Israel;
17:5 then shalt thou bring out that man, or that woman, and ye shall stone
them with stones, and they shall die.
17:6 He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who is
put to death shall not be put to death for one witness.
17:7 And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put
him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shalt thou remove
the evil one from among yourselves.
17:8 And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, between blood
and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and
between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;
17:9 then thou shalt arise and go up to the place which the Lord thy God
shall choose, and thou shalt come to the priests the Levites, and to the
judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out [the matter] and
report the judgment to thee.
17:10 And thou shalt act according to the thing which they shall report to
thee out of the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt
observe to do all whatsoever shall have been by law appointed to thee.
17:11 Thou shalt do according to the law and to the judgment which they
shall declare to thee: thou shalt not swerve to the right hand or to the
left from any sentence which they shall report to thee.
17:12 And the man whosoever shall act in haughtiness, so as no to hearken to
the priest who stands to minister in the name of the Lord thy God, or the
judge who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and thou shalt
remove the evil one out of Israel.
17:13 And all the people shall hear and fear, and shall no more commit
impiety.
17:14 And when thou shalt enter into the land which the Lord thy God gives
thee, and shalt inherit it and dwell in it, and shalt say, I will set a
ruler over me, as also the other nations round about me;
17:15 thou shalt surely set over thee the ruler whom the Lord God shall
choose: of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a ruler; thou shalt not
have power to set over thee a stranger, because he is not thy brother.
17:16 For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means
turn the people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses;
for the Lord said, Ye shall not any more turn back by that way.
17:17 And he shall not multiply to himself wives, lest his heart turn away;
and he shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
17:18 And when he shall be established in his government, then shall he
write for himself this repetition of the law into a book by the hands of the
priests the Levites;
17:19 and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his
life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these
commandments, and to observe these ordinances:
17:20 that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, that he depart not
from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons
may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel. |
17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD
thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness:
for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy
God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of
the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the
sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman,
and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, 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.
17:7 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.
17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood
and blood, 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;
17:9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge
that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show thee the
sentence of judgment:
17:10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place
which the LORD shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt observe to do
according to all that they inform thee:
17:11 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 which they shall show thee, to the right
hand, nor to the left.
17:12 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.
17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.
17:14 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 as all the nations that are about me;
17:15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God
shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee:
thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
17:16 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.
17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not
away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
17:18 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 priests the Levites:
17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein 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 these statutes, to do them:
17:20 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. |