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Deuteronomy Chapter 17

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Deuteronomy

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Deuteronomy 17 forbids sacrificing to the Lord any blemished animal and prescribes the death penalty for anyone who worships other gods, established on the testimony of two or three witnesses whose hands strike first. For hard cases too difficult for local judges, it directs the people to go to the priests and judge at the place the Lord chooses and to obey their ruling absolutely. The chapter then anticipates a future king, requiring him to be the Lord's chosen, to avoid many horses, wives, and riches, and to write for himself a copy of the law and read it all his days so his heart is not lifted above his brethren.

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(1) Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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Deuteronomy 15:21Exodus 12:5Leviticus 22:20Leviticus 22:21Leviticus 22:22Leviticus 22:23Leviticus 22:24Leviticus 22:25Malachi 1:8Malachi 1:13Malachi 1:14Hebrews 9:14

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Exodus 8:26Exodus 22:1Leviticus 1:10Leviticus 22:21John 10:12Numbers 29:36

(2) If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
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Deuteronomy 17:5Deuteronomy 13:6Deuteronomy 13:7Deuteronomy 13:8Deuteronomy 13:9Deuteronomy 13:10Deuteronomy 13:11Deuteronomy 13:12Deuteronomy 13:13Deuteronomy 13:14Deuteronomy 13:15Deuteronomy 13:16

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Jeremiah 44:9Revelation 21:13Deuteronomy 15:7Deuteronomy 16:5Ezekiel 44:17Leviticus 26:42

(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;
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Deuteronomy 4:19II Kings 21:3Job 31:26Job 31:27Jeremiah 8:2Ezekiel 8:16Jeremiah 7:22Jeremiah 7:23Jeremiah 7:31Jeremiah 19:5Jeremiah 32:35

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Judges 10:6Jeremiah 8:2Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 4:19Judges 7:15II Kings 17:16

(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:
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Deuteronomy 13:12Deuteronomy 13:13Deuteronomy 13:14Deuteronomy 19:18Proverbs 25:2John 7:51

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Deuteronomy 13:14I John 5:20II Kings 23:13

(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.
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Deuteronomy 13:10Deuteronomy 13:11Deuteronomy 21:21Deuteronomy 22:21Deuteronomy 22:24Leviticus 24:14Leviticus 24:16Joshua 7:25

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I Chronicles 29:2Nehemiah 13:19I Kings 7:10Revelation 21:13Exodus 15:16John 21:23

(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.
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Deuteronomy 19:15Numbers 35:30Matthew 18:16John 8:17John 8:18II Corinthians 13:1I Timothy 5:19Hebrews 10:28

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Deuteronomy 19:15Joshua 24:22Matthew 26:60Numbers 35:30I Samuel 12:5I John 5:9

(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.
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Deuteronomy 13:9Acts 7:58Acts 7:59Deuteronomy 17:12Deuteronomy 13:5Deuteronomy 19:19Deuteronomy 24:7Judges 20:13I Corinthians 5:13

(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 LORD thy God shall choose;
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Deuteronomy 1:17Exodus 18:26I Kings 3:16I Kings 3:17I Kings 3:18I Kings 3:19I Kings 3:20I Kings 3:21I Kings 3:22I Kings 3:23I Kings 3:24I Kings 3:25

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Jeremiah 49:31II Samuel 2:14Deuteronomy 1:17Revelation 21:13Deuteronomy 12:18Ezekiel 44:17

(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:
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Jeremiah 18:18Haggai 2:11Malachi 2:7Deuteronomy 19:17Deuteronomy 19:18Deuteronomy 19:19Deuteronomy 19:20Deuteronomy 19:21Ezekiel 44:24

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Deuteronomy 17:11Ezekiel 22:2John 7:24Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38

(10) And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
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Matthew 22:2Matthew 22:3

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Deuteronomy 17:11

(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 decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
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Joshua 1:7Malachi 2:8Malachi 2:9Romans 13:1Romans 13:2Romans 13:3Romans 13:4Romans 13:5Romans 13:6Titus 3:1I Peter 2:13I Peter 2:14

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Deuteronomy 17:9Deuteronomy 17:10Proverbs 16:10

(12) And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
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Deuteronomy 13:5Deuteronomy 13:11Numbers 15:30Ezra 10:8Psalms 19:13Hosea 4:4Matthew 10:14Hebrews 10:26Hebrews 10:27Hebrews 10:28Hebrews 10:29Jeremiah 25:3

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II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Romans 14:8Isaiah 3:13

(13) And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
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Deuteronomy 13:11Deuteronomy 19:20Numbers 15:30Numbers 15:31

(14) When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
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Deuteronomy 7:1Deuteronomy 12:9Deuteronomy 12:10Deuteronomy 18:9Deuteronomy 26:1Deuteronomy 26:9Leviticus 14:34Joshua 1:13I Samuel 8:5I Samuel 8:6I Samuel 8:7I Samuel 8:19

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Deuteronomy 11:31Judges 11:24Revelation 10:6Joshua 1:11Obadiah 1:19

(15) Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
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I Samuel 9:15I Samuel 9:16I Samuel 9:17I Samuel 10:24I Samuel 16:12I Samuel 16:13II Samuel 5:2I Chronicles 12:23I Chronicles 22:10I Chronicles 28:5Psalms 2:2Psalms 2:6

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Deuteronomy 30:20Revelation 3:18

(16) But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
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I Samuel 8:11II Samuel 8:4I Kings 1:5I Kings 4:26I Kings 10:26I Kings 10:27I Kings 10:28II Chronicles 9:25Psalms 20:7Isaiah 36:8Isaiah 36:9Hosea 14:3

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7Genesis 1:22

(17) Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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Genesis 2:24II Samuel 3:2II Samuel 3:3II Samuel 3:4II Samuel 3:5I Kings 11:1I Kings 11:2I Kings 11:3I Kings 11:4Nehemiah 13:26Malachi 2:15Matthew 19:5

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Genesis 1:22Genesis 9:7Deuteronomy 17:16Genesis 3:16Deuteronomy 8:13Deuteronomy 13:17

(18) And it shall be, when he sitteth upon 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:
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II Kings 11:12Deuteronomy 31:9Deuteronomy 31:25Deuteronomy 31:26II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 34:15

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I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19Revelation 4:6Revelation 7:15Numbers 3:45Nehemiah 10:38

(19) And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
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Deuteronomy 6:6Deuteronomy 6:7Deuteronomy 6:8Deuteronomy 6:9Deuteronomy 11:18Joshua 1:8Psalms 1:2Psalms 119:97Psalms 119:98Psalms 119:99Psalms 119:100John 5:39

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Revelation 10:6Colossians 4:16

(20) That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not 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.
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Deuteronomy 8:2Deuteronomy 8:13Deuteronomy 8:14II Kings 14:10II Chronicles 25:19II Chronicles 26:16II Chronicles 32:25II Chronicles 32:26II Chronicles 33:12II Chronicles 33:19II Chronicles 33:23II Chronicles 34:27

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II Samuel 2:21Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31II Samuel 2:23Ruth 4:1II Samuel 18:30

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