1 “You will not sacrifice to your God YHWH ox or sheep in which there is a blemish—any bad thing. For it will be an abomination to your God YHWH. 2 When there is found in your middle, in one of your cities which your God YHWH has given to you, a man or a woman who has done evil in the eyes of your God YHWH by transgressing His covenant, 3 and he went and served other gods, and bowed himself to them, and to the sun, or to the moon, or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded, 4 and it was declared to you, and you heard, and searched diligently, and look, if truth, the thing was established. This abomination was done in Israel— 5 Then you will bring out that man or that woman who did this evil thing, to your gates—the man or the woman—and you will stone them with stones, and they will die. 6 By the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses will he who is being put to death be put to death. He will not be put to death by the mouth of one witness. 7 The hand of the witnesses will be on him in the first place to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last. And you will put away evil out of your middle. 8 When anything is too hard for you for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within your gates—then you will rise and go up to the place on which your God YHWH fixes, 9 and come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in those days, and will inquire, and they will declare the word of judgment to you, 10 and you will do according to the tenor of the word which they declare to you (they of that place which YHWH chose). And you will observe to do according to all that they direct you. 11 According to the tenor of the law which they direct you, and according to the judgment which they say to you, you will do. You will not turn aside from the word which they declare to you to the right or left. 12 And the man who acts with presumption, so as not to listen to the priest (who is standing to serve your God YHWH there), or to the judge, even that man will die, and you will put away evil from Israel, 13 and all the people will hear and fear, and will not presume anymore. 14 When you come into the land which your God YHWH has given to you, and possess it, and stay in it, and you say, Let me set a king over me like all the nations which are around me— 15 You will certainly set a king over you on whom YHWH fixes. You will set a king over you from the middle of your brothers. You will not be able to set a stranger over you, who is not your brother. 16 Only, he will not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, so as to multiply horses, seeing YHWH has said to you, You will not continue to return in this way anymore. 17 And he will not multiply wives for himself, and his heart will not turn aside, and he will not exceedingly multiply silver and gold for himself. 18 And it will be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he writes a copy of this law for himself, on a scroll, from that before the priests, the Levites, 19 and it will be with him, and he will read in it all the days of his life, so that he learns to fear his God YHWH, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes—to do them, 20 so that his heart will not be high above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the commands to the right or left, so that he prolongs days over his kingdom, he and his sons in the middle of Israel.”