1You shall not sacrifice to Yehovah your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yehovah your God. 2If there is found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yehovah your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yehovah your God, in transgressing his covenant, 3and has gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded, 4and it is told you, and you have heard of it; then you shall inquire diligently; and, behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such an abomination has been done in Israel, 5then you shall bring out 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. 6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon 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. 8If 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 Yehovah your God shall choose; 9and 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. 10And you shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you from that place which Yehovah shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you: 11according 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. 12And the man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yehovah your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel. 13And all the people shall hear, and fear, and not act presumptuously again. 14When you have come to the land which Yehovah your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell in it, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me; 15you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yehovah your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set as king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; since Yehovah has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way. 17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart may not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18And it shall be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites: 19and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; 20that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may 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.