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You shall keep a solemn feast seven days to Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; for Jehovah your God shall bless you in all your produce, and in every work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He shall choose: In the Feast of Unleavened Bread , and in the Feast of Weeks and in the Feast ofTabernacles. And they shall not appear beforeJehovah empty,

but each with his gift of his hand, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God, which He has given you.

You shall appoint judges and officers for yourself in all your gates which Jehovah your God gives you, tribe by tribe. And they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

You shall follow perfect justice, that you may live and possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.

You shall not set up for yourself pillars of any trees, which you make for yourself near the altar of Jehovah your God.

And you shall not raise up for yourself any standing image, which Jehovah your God detests.

You shall not sacrifice to Jehovah your God an ox or sheep in which there is a blemish, any evil thing, for it is a hateful thing to Jehovah your God.

When there is found among you, in one of your gates which Jehovah your God is giving to you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, in transgressing His covenant,

If a matter is too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between cause and cause, or between stroke and stroke, matters of strife within your gates, then you shall rise and go up to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose.

And the man who acts with pride so as not to listen to the priest who is standing to serve Jehovah your God there, or to the judge, even that man shall die; and you shall put away evil from Israel.

When you come into the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, and have possessed it, and settled in it; and you shall say, Let me set a king over me like all the nations around me,

And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Jehovah your God, to keep all the Words of this Law and these statutes, to do them;

For Jehovah your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the name of Jehovah, he and his sons continually.

then he shall serve in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brothers the Levites who stand before Jehovah do.

When you come to the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, you shall not learn to do according to the hateful acts of those nations.

For all doing these things are an abomination to Jehovah. And because of these filthy acts Jehovah your God is dispossessing these nations before you.

You shall be perfect with Jehovah your God.

For these nations whom you shall expel listen to observers of clouds, and to those divining. But as to you, Jehovah your God has not given to you to do so.

Jehovah your God shall raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, one like me; you shall listen to him,