and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless,
and the widow, that are within thy gates.
[15] Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD
thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all
thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
[16] Three times
in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the
feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not
appear before the LORD empty:
[17] Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the
LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
[18] Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just
judgment.
[19] Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift
doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
[20] That which is altogether just
shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
[21]
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt
make thee.
[22] Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.
Deut.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.
[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,
[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;
[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:
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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;
[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 shew thee the sentence of judgment:
[10] And thou
shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew
thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
[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 shew thee, to the right hand, nor to
the left.
[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.
[13] And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
[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;
[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.
[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] Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly
multiply to himself silver and gold.
[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:
[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:
[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.