Deuteronomy

You shall not sacrifice to the Lord, your God, an ox or sheep with any blemish or defect because the Lord abhors this.

If there is among you, in any of the cities which the Lord will give you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord to the point of breaking his covenant,

if they go to serve other gods and bow before them —to the sun, or the moon, or the stars of heaven—which I have forbidden,

and this has been reported to you or you learn of it, you shall begin to investigate the matter well. If you have proved that this abomination has indeed been committed in Israel,

you shall bring to the gates of the city that man or woman who committed the misdeed, and you shall stone him or her to death.

But you will need the testimony of two or three witnesses to condemn a person to death. The accusation of only one witness will not condemn anyone.

The hands of the witnesses shall throw the first stones to kill the accused. Afterwards, all the people shall stone him. In this way, you will make the evil disappear from your midst.

If a complicated case is presented to you that you cannot resolve in the city tribunal, either about murder, a legal dispute, or a quarrel because of injuries, you shall go up to the place chosen by the Lord, your God;

you shall approach the Levite priests and the judge in office at that time. You shall consult them, and they will inform you of the decision regarding the case.

You shall carry out the decision they have made for you in that place chosen by the Lord. You shall act according to their instructions.

You shall follow the instructions or the verdict they have given you without turning aside either to the right or the left from the decision they made for you.

He who dares to act in another way and does not listen to the priest who stands there in the service of the Lord or to the judge, that man will die. You shall banish evil from Israel.

So all the people, upon knowing this, shall fear and not make decisions without the right to do so.

Law of the King

When you come to the land which the Lord, your God, gives you, when you have conquered it and live in it, you shall perhaps say: “I would like to have a king like all the neighboring nations.”

Then you must appoint a king chosen by the Lord from among your brothers. You shall not appoint a foreign king who is not a brother Israelite.

Ensure that your king does not acquire many horses, lest he send his people to Egypt again to get more horses, for the Lord commanded you never to go back that way.

Neither shall he have many women lest they pervert his heart. And neither let him pile up gold and silver.

When he sits on his royal throne, he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

He shall bring it with him and read it every day of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord, keeping all the sayings of the law and putting his precepts into practice.

So let him not become conceited, look down on his brothers, or turn aside from this commandment either to the right or left, so that he and his children may lengthen the days of their reign in Israel.