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If there is found in the midst of you, inside any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, that does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

If 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 inside your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

And the man that does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest that stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.

When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me;

you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons forever.

then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.

When you come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the disgusting behaviors of those nations.

For whoever does these things is disgusting to Yahweh: and because of these disgusting things Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.

You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.

For these nations that you shall dispossess, listen to psychics and fortune-tellers; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do so.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;

according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire anymore, that I will not die.

When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

You shall prepare for yourself the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

And if Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

if you shall keep all [of] this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three:

that innocent blood shall not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood will be on you.