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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Deuteronomy 17 New American Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/deuteronomy/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</a> > Deuteronomy 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/16.htm" title="Deuteronomy 16">◄</a> Deuteronomy 17 <a href="../deuteronomy/18.htm" title="Deuteronomy 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch05017" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn05017" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span id="v05017001" class="ver">1</span>You shall not sacrifice to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, an ox or a sheep with any serious defect;<a id="ren05017001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017001-a">a</a> that would be an abomination to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God.</p> <p><span id="v05017002" class="ver">2</span><a id="ren05017002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017002-b">b</a> If there is found in your midst, in any one of the communities which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, gives you, a man or a woman who does evil in the sight of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, and transgresses his covenant,<a id="ren05017002-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017002-c">c</a> <span id="v05017003" class="ver">3</span>by going to serve other gods, by bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, contrary to my command;<a id="ren05017003-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017003-d">d</a> <span id="v05017004" class="ver">4</span>and if you are told or hear of it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the truth of the matter is established that this abomination has been committed in Israel, <span id="v05017005" class="ver">5</span>you shall bring the man or the woman who has done this evil deed out to your gates<a id="rfn05017005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05017005-1">*</a> and stone the man or the woman to death. <span id="v05017006" class="ver">6</span>Only on the testimony of two or three witnesses shall a person be put to death;<a id="ren05017006-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017006-e">e</a> no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. <span id="v05017007" class="ver">7</span>The hands of the witnesses shall be the first raised to put the person to death, and afterward the hands of all the people.<a id="ren05017007-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017007-f">f</a> Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Judges.</span> <span id="v05017008" class="ver">8</span><a id="ren05017008-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017008-g">g</a> If there is a case for judgment which proves too baffling for you to decide, in a matter of bloodshed or of law or of injury, matters of dispute within your gates, you shall then go up to the place which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, will choose, <span id="v05017009" class="ver">9</span>to the levitical priests or to the judge who is in office at that time. They shall investigate the case and then announce to you the decision.<a id="ren05017009-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017009-h">h</a> <span id="v05017010" class="ver">10</span>You shall act according to the decision they announce to you in the place which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will choose, carefully observing everything as they instruct you. <span id="v05017011" class="ver">11</span>You shall carry out the instruction they give you and the judgment they pronounce, without turning aside either to the right or left from the decision they announce to you. <span id="v05017012" class="ver">12</span>Anyone who acts presumptuously and does not obey the priest<a id="rfn05017012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05017012-1">*</a> who officiates there in the ministry of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, or the judge, shall die. Thus shall you purge the evil from Israel. <span id="v05017013" class="ver">13</span>And all the people, on hearing of it, shall fear, and will never again act presumptuously.<a id="ren05017013-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017013-i">i</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The King.</span> <span id="v05017014" class="ver">14</span><a id="ren05017014-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017014-j">j</a> When you have come into the land which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, should you then decide, “I will set a king over me, like all the surrounding nations,”<a id="ren05017014-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017014-k">k</a> <span id="v05017015" class="ver">15</span>you may indeed set over you a king whom the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, will choose.<a id="ren05017015-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017015-l">l</a> Someone from among your own kindred you may set over you as king; you may not set over you a foreigner, who is no kin of yours. <span id="v05017016" class="ver">16</span><a id="rfn05017016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05017016-1">*</a> But he shall not have a great number of horses; nor shall he make his people go back again to Egypt to acquire many horses, for the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to you, Do not go back that way again.<a id="ren05017016-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017016-m">m</a> <span id="v05017017" class="ver">17</span>Neither shall he have a great number of wives, lest his heart turn away,<a id="ren05017017-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017017-n">n</a> nor shall he accumulate a vast amount of silver and gold. <span id="v05017018" class="ver">18</span>When he is sitting upon his royal throne, he shall write a copy of this law<a id="rfn05017018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05017018-1">*</a> upon a scroll from the one that is in the custody of the levitical priests.<a id="ren05017018-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017018-o">o</a> <span id="v05017019" class="ver">19</span><a id="rfn05017019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05017019-1">*</a> <a id="ren05017019-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05017019-p">p</a> It shall remain with him and he shall read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to fear the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, his God, and to observe carefully all the words of this law and these statutes, <span id="v05017020" class="ver">20</span>so that he does not exalt himself over his kindred or turn aside from this commandment to the right or to the left, and so that he and his descendants may reign long in Israel.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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