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title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Detestable Sacrifices<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thou shalt offer vnto the Lorde thy God no oxe nor sheepe wherin is blemishe or any euyll fauourednesse: for that is an abhomination vnto the Lorde thy God.<p> <A name="3"></a><p class="hdg">Purge the Idolater<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>If there be founde among you within any of thy gates which the Lorde thy God geueth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde thy God, in transgressyng his couenaunt: <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And gone and serued straunge gods, and worshipped them, as the sunne or moone, or any of the hoast of heauen, which I haue not commaunded: <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And it is tolde thee, & thou hast hearde of it, then shalt thou enquire diligently: and if it be true, & the thyng of a suretie that such abhomination is wrought in Israel: <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then shalt thou bryng foorth that man or that woman (which haue committed that wicked thyng) vnto the gates, and shalt stone them with stones tyll they dye. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>At the mouth of two or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death, dye: and at the mouth of one witnesse, let no man dye. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The handes of the witnesses shalbe first vpon him, to kyll him, & afterward the handes of all the people: and thou shalt put the wicked away from thee.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Courts of Law<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>If there rise a matter to harde for thee in iudgement betweene blood and blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, and the matters come to strife within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee vp vnto the place whiche the Lorde thy God hath chosen, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And come vnto the priestes the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shalbe in those dayes, and aske: and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And thou must do accordyng to that which they of that place (which the Lord had chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to do accordyng to all that they enfourme thee: <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Accordyng to the sentence of the lawe which they tell thee, shalt thou do: and bowe not from that which they shewe thee, neither to the right hande nor to the left. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And that man that wyll do presumptuously, and wyll not hearken vnto the priest (that standeth there before the Lorde thy God to minister) or vnto the iudge: that man shall dye, and thou shalt put away euyll from Israel. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And all the people shall heare, & feare, and shall do no more presumptuously.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Guidelines for a King<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_samuel/8.htm">1 Samuel 8:1–9</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When thou art come vnto the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee, and enioyest it, and dwellest therin, and if thou shalt say, I wyll set a king ouer me, lyke as all the nations that are about me: <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then thou shalt make hym king ouer thee whom the Lorde thy God shall choose: Euen one from among thy brethren shalt thou make kyng ouer thee, and thou mayest not set a straunger ouer thee, which is not of thy brethren. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But he shall not multiplie horses to hym selfe, nor bryng the people agayne to Egypt to increase the number of horses: forasmuch as the Lorde hath sayde vnto you, ye shall hencefoorth go no more agayne that way. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Also he ought not to multiplie wyues to him selfe, lest his heart turne away, neither shall he gather hym siluer and golde to much.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And when he is set vpon the seate of his kingdome, he shall write hym out a copie of this lawe in a booke before the priestes the Leuites: <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And it shalbe with hym, and he ought to reade therin all the dayes of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lorde his God, and to kepe all the wordes of this lawe and these ordinaunces, for to do them: <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And that his heart arise not aboue his brethren, and that he turne not from the commaundement to the right hand or to the left: but that he may prolong his dayes in his kyngdome, he and his children in the middes of Israel.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Bishops' Bible of 1568<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/16.htm" 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