Deut. 16:18 ¶ You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that YHVH your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice.
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Deut. 16:19 You shall not judge unfairly: you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just. Deut. 16:20 Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that YHVH your God is giving you.
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Deut. 16:21 ¶ You shall not set up a sacred post—any kind of pole beside the altar of YHVH your God that you may make— Deut. 16:22 or erect a stone pillar; for such YHVH your God detests.
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Deut. 17:1 ¶ You shall not sacrifice to YHVH your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect of a serious kind, for that is abhorrent to YHVH your God.
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Deut. 17:2 ¶ If there is found among you, in one of the settlements that YHVH your God is giving you, a man or woman who has affronted YHVH your God and transgressed His covenant—
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Deut. 17:3 turning to the worship of other gods and bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, something I never commanded—
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Deut. 17:4 and you have been informed or have learned of it, then you shall make a thorough inquiry. If it is true, the fact is established, that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in Israel,
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Deut. 17:5 you shall take the man or the woman who did that wicked thing out to the public place, and you shall stone them, man or woman, to death.—
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Deut. 17:6 A person shall be put to death only on the testimony of two or morea witnesses; he must not be put to death on the testimony of a single witness.—
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Deut. 17:7 Let the hands of the witnesses be the first against him to put him to death, and the hands of the rest of the people thereafter. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.
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Deut. 17:8 ¶ If a case is too baffling for you to decide, be it a controversy over homicide, civil law, or assault—matters of dispute in your courts—you shall promptly repair to the place that YHVH your God will have chosen,
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