Deuteronomy 17

1Don’t be out here sacrificing any cows or sheep with flaws, that’s just sus to God.

2If you catch someone in your crew doing shady stuff against God’s vibe, that's a no-go.

3And if they go and worship other gods, like the sun or moon, that’s straight up not what God said.

4If you hear about it and it’s confirmed, that’s a major abomination in Israel, no cap.

5You gotta bring that person to your gates and stone them until they’re done for, fr.

6You need two or three witnesses to back up the death sentence; one witness ain’t enough, periodt.

7The witnesses throw the first stones, then everyone else joins in to get rid of the bad vibes.

8If you face a tough call in your judgment, get up to the place God picks for you, bet.

9Go to the priests and the judge of those days, and they’ll give you the judgment vibes.

10Follow what they say, and do everything they tell you, no exceptions.

11Stick to the law they teach you and don’t stray from their judgment, left or right.

12If someone acts all reckless and ignores the priest or judge, they’re done for, and you gotta keep the evil outta Israel.

13The people gotta hear this and be shook, so they don’t act reckless anymore.

14When you get to the land God gives you and wanna pick a king like everyone else, it’s lit.

15Pick a king from your own crew, not some random dude who ain’t your brother, no cap.

16But he can’t have too many horses or make the people go back to Egypt for them, that’s not the vibe.

17He also shouldn’t have too many wives or hoard silver and gold, keep it chill.

18When he’s on the throne, he should write down this law from the priests’ book, fr.

19He’s gotta keep that book close and read it every day to learn to respect God and follow the law.

20So his heart stays humble and he doesn’t stray from the commandments, keeping it real in Israel.

1Thou 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.

2If 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,

3And 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;

4And 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:

5Then 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.

6At 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.

7The 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.

8If 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;

9And 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:

10And 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:

11According 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.

12And 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.

13And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

14When 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;

15Thou 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.

16But 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.

17Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

18And 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:

19And 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:

20That 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.