Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD
your God; for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you forth
out of Egypt by night. {16:2} You shall sacrifice the Passover to the
LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD
shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. {16:3} You shall eat
no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread
therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the
land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came
forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. {16:4} There
shall be no yeast seen with you in all your borders seven days;
neither shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at
even, remain all night until the morning. {16:5} You may not sacrifice
the Passover within any of your gates, which the LORD your God gives
you; {16:6} but at the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at
even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth
out of Egypt. {16:7} You shall roast and eat it in the place which the
LORD your God shall choose: and you shall turn in the morning, and go
to your tents. {16:8} Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on
the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you
shall do no work [therein]. {16:9} Seven weeks shall you number to
you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain
shall you begin to number seven weeks. {16:10} You shall keep the
feast of weeks to the LORD your God with a tribute of a freewill
offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as the LORD
your God blesses you: {16:11} and you shall rejoice before the LORD
your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant,
and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and
the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst
of you, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause
his name to dwell there. {16:12} You shall remember that you were a
bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
{16:13} You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after that you
have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress:
{16:14} and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and
your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the
Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are
within your gates. {16:15} Seven days shall you keep a feast to the
LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose; because the
LORD your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work
of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful. {16:16} Three times
in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD your 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 booths; and they shall not
appear before the LORD empty: {16:17} every man shall give as he is
able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has
given you. {16:18} Judges and officers shall you make you in all your
gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes;
and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. {16:19} You
shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall
you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and
pervert the words of the righteous. {16:20} That which is altogether
just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which
the LORD your God gives you. {16:21} You shall not plant you an
Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD your God,
which you shall make you. {16:22} Neither shall you set yourself up a
pillar; which the LORD your God hates.
{17:1} You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox, or a
sheep, in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an
abomination to the LORD your God. {17:2} If there be found in the
midst of you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives
you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of the
LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant, {17:3} and has gone and
served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any
of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded; {17:4} and it be
told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently;
and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is done in Israel, {17:5} then shall you bring forth that
man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even
the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
{17:6} At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he who
is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be
put to death. {17:7} The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him
to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you
shall put away the evil from the midst of you. {17:8} If there arise 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 shall you arise, and go up to the
place which the LORD your God shall choose; {17:9} and you shall come
to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those
days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of
judgment. {17:10} You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence
which they shall show you from that place which the LORD shall choose;
and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach
you: {17:11} according to the tenor 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 aside from the sentence which they shall
show you, to the right hand, nor to the left. {17:12} The man who does
presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister
there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall
die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel. {17:13} All the
people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. {17:14}
When you are come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and
shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a
king over me, like all the nations that are round about me; {17:15}
you shall surely set him king over you, whom the LORD your God shall
choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you; you
may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. {17:16}
Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to
return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the
LORD has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.
{17:17} Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not
turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and
gold. {17:18} It shall be, when he sits on 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 not be lifted up
above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the mitzvah, 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.
{18:1} The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi, shall
have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his inheritance. {18:2} They
shall have no inheritance among their brothers: the LORD is their
inheritance, as he has spoken to them. {18:3} This shall be the
priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice,
whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the
shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. {18:4} The first fruits of
your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the
fleece of your sheep, shall you give him. {18:5} For the LORD your God
has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the
name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever. {18:6} If a Levite comes
from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a
foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place
which the LORD shall choose; {18:7} then he shall minister in the name
of the LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand
there before the LORD. {18:8} They shall have like portions to eat,
besides that which comes of the sale of his patrimony. {18:9} When you
are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall
not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. {18:10} There
shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter
to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices
sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, {18:11} or a charmer, or a
consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
{18:12} For whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD:
and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them
out from before you. {18:13} You shall be perfect with the LORD your
God. {18:14} For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to
those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD
your God has not allowed you so to do. {18:15} The LORD your God will
raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers,
like me; to him you shall listen; {18:16} according to all that you
desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly,
saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither
let me see this great fire any more, that I not die. {18:17} The LORD
said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. {18:18} I
will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and
I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that
I shall command him. {18:19} It shall happen, that whoever will not
listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it
of him. {18:20} But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously
in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall
speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. {18:21}
If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD
has not spoken? {18:22} when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD,
if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the
LORD has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you
shall not be afraid of him.
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