Deuteronomy 17

1You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.Cross-references: Gen 41:3 · Gen 41:19 · Ex 12:5 · Lev 22:20 · Deut 15:21 · Deut 23:18 · +10 more

2If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,Cross-references: Lev 26:15 · Lev 26:25 · Deut 4:23 · Deut 13:6 · Deut 17:5 · Deut 29:18 · +12 more

3and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · 2Ki 21:3 · Job 31:26 · Jer 7:22 · Jer 7:31 · Jer 8:2 · +3 more

4and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,Cross-references: Deut 13:12 · Deut 19:18 · Prov 25:2 · John 7:51

5then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.Cross-references: Lev 24:14 · Lev 24:16 · Deut 13:10 · Deut 21:21 · Deut 22:21 · Deut 22:24 · +1 more

6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.Cross-references: Num 35:30 · Deut 19:15 · Matt 18:16 · John 8:17 · 2Cor 13:1 · 1Tim 5:19 · +1 more

7The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.Cross-references: Deut 13:5 · Deut 13:9 · Deut 17:12 · Deut 19:19 · Deut 24:7 · Judg 20:13 · +2 more

8If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.Cross-references: Ex 18:26 · Ex 21:12 · Ex 21:20 · Ex 21:22 · Ex 21:28 · Ex 22:2 · +13 more

9You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.Cross-references: Deut 19:17 · Jer 18:18 · Ezek 44:24 · Hag 2:11 · Mal 2:7

10You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.Cross-references: Matt 22:2

11According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.Cross-references: Deut 5:32 · Deut 17:20 · Deut 25:1 · Deut 28:14 · Josh 1:7 · Josh 23:6 · +8 more

12The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.Cross-references: Num 15:30 · Deut 10:8 · Deut 13:5 · Deut 13:11 · Deut 17:7 · Deut 18:5 · +15 more

13All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.Cross-references: Num 15:30 · Deut 13:11 · Deut 19:20

14When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”Cross-references: Lev 14:34 · Deut 7:1 · Deut 11:31 · Deut 12:9 · Deut 18:9 · Deut 26:1 · +5 more

15you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.Cross-references: 1Sam 9:15 · 1Sam 10:24 · 1Sam 16:12 · 2Sam 5:2 · 1Chr 12:23 · 1Chr 22:10 · +6 more

16Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”Cross-references: Ex 13:17 · Ex 14:13 · Num 14:3 · Deut 28:68 · 1Sam 8:11 · 2Sam 8:4 · +11 more

17He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.Cross-references: Gen 2:24 · 2Sam 3:2 · 1Ki 10:21 · 1Ki 11:1 · Neh 13:26 · Ps 62:10 · +9 more

18It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.Cross-references: Deut 31:9 · Deut 31:24 · 2Ki 11:12 · 2Ki 22:8 · 2Chr 34:15

19It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;Cross-references: Deut 4:10 · Deut 6:6 · Deut 11:18 · Josh 1:8 · Ps 1:2 · Ps 119:97 · +2 more

20that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away 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 middle of Israel.Cross-references: Deut 4:2 · Deut 5:32 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 8:13 · Deut 12:25 · Deut 12:28 · +28 more