May
1
Deuteronomy
17, 18
Deu
17:1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep,
in which is a blemish, or
anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
17:2 If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates
which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is
evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,
Deu
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;
Deu
17:4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall
inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain,
that such abomination is done in Israel,
Deu
17:5 then you shall 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.
Deu
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.
Deu
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.
Deu
17:8 If there arises 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 you
shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall
choose;
Deu
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.
Deu
17:10 You shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they
shall show you from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you
shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:
Deu
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.
Deu
17:12 The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the
priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the
judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from
Israel.
Deu
17:13 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.
Deu
17:14 When you are come to the land which Yahweh 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 around me;
Deu
17:15 you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh
your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set
king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your
brother.
Deu
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 Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more
that way.
Deu
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.
Deu
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:
Deu
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 Yahweh his God, to keep
all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
Deu
17:20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that
he not turn 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.
Deu
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 Yahweh made by fire, and his
inheritance.
Deu
18:2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is
their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
Deu
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.
Deu
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, you shall give him.
Deu
18:5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to
stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.
Deu
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 Yahweh shall choose;
Deu
18:7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all
his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
Deu
18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes
of the sale of his patrimony.
Deu
18:9 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives
you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those
nations.
Deu
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,
Deu
18:11 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a
wizard, or a necromancer.
Deu
18:12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and
because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out
from before you.
Deu
18:13 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
Deu
18:14 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those
who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your
God has not allowed you so to do.
Deu
18:15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst
of you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
Deu
18:16 This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God
in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again
the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any
more, that I not die.
Deu
18:17 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have
spoken.
Deu
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.
Deu
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.
Deu
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.
Deu
18:21 If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which
Yahweh has not spoken?
Deu
18:22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing
doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not
spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be
afraid of him.