Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 17

Deut 17:1 “Do not slaughter to יהוה your Elohim a bull or sheep which has
any blemish, any evil matter, for that is an abomination to יהוה your Elohim.
Deut 17:2 “When there is found in your midst, in any of your cities which
יהוה your Elohim is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in
the eyes of יהוה your Elohim, in transgressing His covenant,
Deut 17:3 and has gone and served other mighty ones and bowed down to
them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of the heavens, which I
have not commanded,
Deut 17:4 and it has been made known to you and you have heard, and has
searched diligently. Then see, if true: the matter is confirmed that such an
abomination has been done in Yisra’ĕl,
Deut 17:5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has
done this evil matter, and you shall stone to death that man or woman with
stones.
Deut 17:6 “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is to die be
put to death. He is not put to death by the mouth of one witness.
Deut 17:7 “The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to
death, and the hand of all the people last. So you shall purge the evil from
your midst.
Deut 17:8 “When any matter arises which is too hard for you to judge,
between blood and blood, between plea and plea, or between stroke and
stroke – matters of strife within your gates – then you shall rise and go up to
the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses,
Deut 17:9 and shall come to the priests, the Lĕwites, and to the judge who is
in those days, and shall inquire. And they shall declare to you the word of
right-ruling,
Deut 17:10 and you shall do according to the word which they declare to
you from that place which יהוה chooses. And you shall guard to do according
to all that they instruct you.
Deut 17:11 “Do according to the Torah in which they teach you, according to
the right-ruling which they say to you. You do not turn to the right or to the
left from the word which they declare to you.
Deut 17:12 “And the man who acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the priest
who stands to serve there before יהוה your Elohim, or to the judge, that man
shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ĕl.
Deut 17:13 “And let all the people hear and fear, and no longer do
arrogantly.
Deut 17:14 “When you come to the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving
you, and shall possess it and shall dwell in it, and you shall say, ‘Let me set a
sovereign over me like all the gentiles that are around me,’
Deut 17:15 you shall certainly set a sovereign over you whom יהוה your
Elohim shall choose. Set a sovereign over you from among your brothers,
you are not allowed to set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
Deut 17:16 “Only, he is not to increase horses for himself, nor cause the
people to return to Mitsrayim to increase horses, for יהוה has said to you, ‘Do
not return that way again.’
Deut 17:17 “And he is not to increase wives for himself, lest his heart turn
away, nor is he to greatly increase silver and gold for himself.
Deut 17:18 “And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his reign, that he
shall write for himself a copy of this Torah in a book, from the one before the
priests, the Lĕwites.
Deut 17:19 “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his
life, so that he learns to fear יהוה his Elohim and guard all the Words of this
Torah and these laws, to do them,
Deut 17:20 so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so as not
to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongs his days in
his reign, he and his children, in the midst of Yisra’ĕl.