Do not sacrifice to [before] Adonoy, your God, an ox or a lamb that has a blemish, any bad thing; for it is abominated [distanced] by [before] Adonoy, your God.

If there is found among you, in one of your cities that Adonoy, your God, is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the eyes of Adonoy, your God, by violating His covenant.

He goes and serves other gods [idols of the nations] and bows to them—whether to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of heaven that I did not command.

When you are told and you understand, you are to inquire thoroughly. If in fact the report is authenticated and accurate—this abomination was committed within Yisroel.

You are to take out that man or that woman who did this evil thing to your city [the door of your court]—the man or the woman—and you are to stone them with stones so that they die.

By the speech of two witnesses or three witnesses is the guilty one [the one sentenced to death] to be executed; he is not to be executed by the oral testimonoy of one witness.

Let the hand of the witnesses be against him first to execute him, and the hand of the entire people afterward; and you will eliminate the evil [doer] from within you.

If a matter of law is too abstruse for you—between blood and blood, between decision and decision, or between leprosy [a plague of confinement] and leprosy [a plague of confinement], matters under [legal] dispute in your city; you shall rise and ascend to the place that Adonoy, your God, will have chosen.

You are to come before the kohanim-the Levites and the judge officiating during those days; you will inquire and they will tell you the legal decision.

You are to act according to the word that they tell you from that place that Adonoy will have chosen; and you are to be careful to fulfill exactly as they instruct you.

In accord with the Torah that they instruct you and upon the law that they state to you, are you to act; do not deviate from the word they tell you, neither right or left.

But the man who acts deliberately to not heed the kohein who stands to serve there [before] Adonoy, your God, or the judge; that man is to be executed and you will eliminate the evil [doer] from Yisroel.

Let all the people hear and fear, and not sin deliberately again.

When you arrive in the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you and inherit it and live in it, and you say, ‘‘Let me appoint over me a king like all the nations around me;’’

Appoint are you to appoint over yourself a king whom Adonoy, your God, will choose. From among your brothers are you to appoint over yourself a king; you may not [you have no permission to] place over yourself a foreigner who is not your brother.

However, he must not acquire an abundance of horses for himself so that he will not return the people to Egypt in order to acquire an abundance of horses, because Adonoy told you, ‘‘You are not to proceed to return along this route again.’’

And he is not to acquire an abundance of wives for himself so that his heart will not veer; and silver and gold he may not accumulate for himself in great abundance.

It shall be, that when he occupies the throne of his kingdom, he must write for himself a duplicate of this Torah in a scroll form [the scroll] before the kohanim—the Levites.

It is to accompany him and he is to read in it all the days of his life, in order that he learn to fear [before] Adonoy, his God, to guard every word of this Torah and these statutes to fulfill them;

That his pride not increase over his brothers and he does not stray from the commandment right or left; so that the days of his reign are lengthy over his kingdom, he and his sons within Yisroel.