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the place which the L
ORD
shall choose: because the L
ORD
thy God shall bless thee in all thine
increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
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Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the L
ORD
thy God in the place which
he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the L
ORD
empty:
17
Every man
shall give
as he is able,
according to the blessing of the L
ORD
thy God which he hath given thee.
18
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the L
ORD
thy God giveth thee,
throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
19
Thou shalt not wrest
judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the
wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
20
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that
thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the L
ORD
thy God giveth thee.
21
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the L
ORD
thy God, which
thou shalt make thee.
22
Neither shalt thou set thee up
any
image; which the L
ORD
thy God hateth.
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Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the L
ORD
thy God
any
bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish,
or
any
evilfavouredness: for that
is
an abomination unto the L
ORD
thy God.
2
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the L
ORD
thy God giveth thee, man
or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the L
ORD
thy God, in transgressing his
covenant,
3
And 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;
4
And 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:
5
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.
6
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.
7
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.
8
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 the L
ORD
thy God shall choose;
9
And 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:
10
And thou shalt do according to the sentence,
which they of that place which the L
ORD
shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do
according to all that they inform thee:
11
According 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
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