1Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.[ † ]Deuteronomy 15:21Malachi 1:8-13
2If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,[ † ]Deuteronomy 13:6Joshua 7:11 3and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:19Jeremiah 7:22 4and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it , and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:[ † ]Deuteronomy 13:12-14 5then 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.[ † ]Leviticus 24:14-16Joshua 7:25Deuteronomy 13:6-18 6At 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.[ † ]Numbers 35:30Deuteronomy 19:15Matthew 18:16John 8:172 Corinthians 13:11 Timothy 5:19Hebrews 10:28 7The 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.[ † ]Deuteronomy 13:5Deuteronomy 19:191 Corinthians 5:13
8If 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 the Lord thy God shall choose;[ † ]Deuteronomy 1:172 Chronicles 19:10Deuteronomy 12:5Deuteronomy 16:2 9and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:[ † ]Jeremiah 18:18Deuteronomy 19:17-19Ezekiel 44:24 10and thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: 11according to the sentence of the law 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 shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. 12And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.[ † ]Numbers 15:30Deuteronomy 1:43 13And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.[ † ]Deuteronomy 13:11
14When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God 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;[ † ]1 Samuel 8:5-19, 201 Samuel 10:19 15thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God 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.[ † ]1 Samuel 9:15-161 Samuel 10:241 Samuel 16:12-131 Chronicles 22:8-10Hosea 8:4Jeremiah 30:21 16But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.[ † ]1 Kings 4:261 Kings 10:26-29Psalms 20:7Isaiah 31:1Ezekiel 17:15Exodus 13:17-18Hosea 11:5Deuteronomy 28:68 17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.[ † ]1 Kings 10:14
18And it shall be, when he sitteth upon 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:[ † ]Deuteronomy 31:24-26 19and 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:[ † ]Psalms 119:97-98 20that 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 Israel.[ † ]Deuteronomy 5:321 Kings 15:5