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Deuteronomy 17:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests. "

Deuteronomy 17:18

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16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because the LORD has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

17 He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

18 It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.

19 It shall be with him, and he shall read from it 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;

20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away 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 middle of Israel.

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"When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,"

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"“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest,"

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"Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever."

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"He will show the instruction which he has been taught and will glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord."

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Deuteronomy 17:1

"You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to the LORD your God."

Deuteronomy 17:2

"If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in the LORD your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,"

Deuteronomy 17:3

"and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,"

Deuteronomy 17:4

"and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,"

Deuteronomy 17:5

"then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones."

Deuteronomy 17:6

"At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death."

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