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Dabariym 17

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17:1

The Purity of Offerings and the Supreme Court

Thou shalt not sacrifice unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evil favouredness: for that is an abomination unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym.
17:2

The Eradication of the Celestial Cults

If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym, in transgressing his covenant,
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And hath gone and served other lo alahiym, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
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And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Yashar'al:
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Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
17:6

The Standard of Verification

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
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The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
17:8

The Centralized Supreme Court

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym shall choose;
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And thou shalt come unto the priests the Lawiytes, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment:
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And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
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According to the sentence of the law (Turah) which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
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And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Yashar'al.
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And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
17:14

The Law of the King (Mishpat HaMelekh)

When thou art come unto the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, "I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;"
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Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
17:16

The Restrictions of Terrestrial Power

But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Mitzrayim, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath said unto you, "Ye shall henceforth return no more that way."
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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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The Subordination of the Crown to the Turah

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law (Turah) in a book out of that which is before the priests the Lawiytes:
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And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 his Alahiym, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
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That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside 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 midst of Yashar'al.