¶ Thou shalt¹ not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep³, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that⁴ is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

If there be found among you, within any of thy gates⁵ which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man⁶ or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing⁷ his covenant,

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun⁸, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which⁹ I have not commanded;

And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired¹⁰ diligently, 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 gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them¹¹ with stones, till they die.

¹²At 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.

The hands of the witnesses¹³ shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou¹⁴ shalt put the evil away from among you.

¶ If there arise¹⁵ a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood¹⁶ 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 up¹⁷ into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

And thou shalt come unto the priests¹⁸ the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall¹⁹ shew thee the sentence of judgment:

¶²⁰And 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:

According to²¹ 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 right²² hand, nor to the left.

And the man that will do²³ presumptuously, and will not hearken²⁴ unto the priest²⁵ that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man²⁶ shall die: and thou shalt²⁷ put away the evil from Israel.

And all the people shall hear²⁸, and fear, and do no more presumptuously²⁹.

¶ When thou³⁰ 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 set³¹ a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom³² the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among³³ thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set³⁴ a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

But he shall not multiply horses³⁵ to himself, nor cause³⁶ the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth³⁷ return no more that way.

Neither shall he multiply wives³⁸ to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he³⁹ greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall⁴⁰ write him a copy⁴¹ of this law in a book out of that which⁴² is before the priests the Levites:

⁴³And 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:

¶ That his heart⁴⁴ be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn⁴⁵ not aside from the commandment, to the right hand⁴⁶, or to the left: to the end that he⁴⁷ may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.