Deuteronomy 17
The things sacrificed must be sound.
Deuteronomy 17:1 Thou schalt not offre to thi Lord God an oxe and a scheep in which is a wem, ether ony thing of vice, for it is abhominacioun to thi Lord God.
Idolaters must be slain.
Deuteronomy 17:2 And whanne a man ether a womman, that doon yuel in the siyte of thi Lord God, ben foundun at thee, with ynne oon of thi yatis whiche thi Lord God schal yyue to thee, and thei breken the couenaunt of God, Deuteronomy 17:3 that thei go and serue alien goddis, and worschipe hem, the sunne, and moone, and al the knyythod of heuene, whiche thingis Y comaundide not; Deuteronomy 17:4 and this is teld to thee, and thou herist, and enquerist diligentli, and fyndist that it is soth, and abhomynacioun is doon in Israel; Deuteronomy 17:5 thou schalt lede out the man and the womman, that diden a moost cursid thing, to the yatis of thy citee, and thei schulen be oppressid with stoonus. Deuteronomy 17:6 He that schal be slayn, schal perische in the mouth of tweyne, ethir of thre witnessis; no man be slayn, for o man seith witnessyng ayens hym. Deuteronomy 17:7 The hond of witnessis schal first sle hym, and the last hond of the tothir puple schal be sent, that thou do awei yuel fro the myddis of thee.
Hard controversies are to be determined by the priests and judges.
Deuteronomy 17:8 If thou perseyuest, that hard and douteful doom is at thee, bitwixe blood and blood, cause and cause, lepre and not lepre, and thou seest that the wordis of iugis with ynne thi yatis ben dyuerse; rise thou, and stie to the place which thi Lord God hath choose; Deuteronomy 17:9 and thou schalt come to the preestis of the kyn of Leuy, and to the iuge which is in that tyme, and thou schalt axe of hem, whiche schulen schewe to thee the treuthe of doom. Deuteronomy 17:10 And thou schalt do, what euer thing thei seien, that ben souereyns in the place which the Lord chees, and techen thee bi the lawe of the Lord; Deuteronomy 17:11 thou schalt sue the sentence of hem; thou schalt not bowe to the riyt side, ether to the lefte.
The contemner of that determination must die.
Deuteronomy 17:12 Forsothe that man schal die, which is proud, and nyle obeie to the comaundement of the preest, that mynystrith in that tyme to thi Lord God, and to the sentence of iuge, and thou schalt do awei yuel fro the myddis of Israel; Deuteronomy 17:13 and al the puple schal here, and drede, that no man fro thennus forth bolne with pride.
The election,
Deuteronomy 17:14 Whanne thou hast entrid in to the lond, which thi Lord God schal yyue to thee, and weldist it, and dwellist therynne, and seist, Y schal ordeyne a kyng on me, as alle naciouns bi cumpas han; Deuteronomy 17:15 thou schalt ordeyne hym, whom thi Lord God chesith of the noumbre of thi brethren. Thou schalt not mow make king a man of anothir folk, which man is not thi brother.
and duty of a king.
Deuteronomy 17:16 And whanne the king is ordeyned, he schal not multiplie horsis to hym, nethir he schal lede ayen the puple in to Egipt, nethir he schal be reisid bi the noumbre of knyytis, moost sithen the Lord comaundide to you, that ye turne no more ayen bi the same weie. Deuteronomy 17:17 The kyng schal not haue ful many wyues, that drawen his soule to ouer myche fleischlynesse, nether he schal haue grete burthuns of siluer and of gold. Deuteronomy 17:18 Forsothe after that he hath sete in the trone of his rewme, he schal write to himsilf the deuteronomy of this lawe in a volym ether book, and he schal take a saumpler at preestis of the kyn of Leuy; Deuteronomy 17:19 and he schal haue it with hym, and he schal rede it in alle the daies of his lijf, that he lerne to drede his Lord God, and to kepe hise wordis and cerymonyes, that ben comaundid in the lawe; Deuteronomy 17:20 nether his herte be reisid in to pride on hise brithren, nether bowe he in to the riyt side, ether left side, that he regne long tyme, he and hise sones on Israel.
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