Deuteronomy · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Deuteronomy 17 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a calf or a sheep, in which there is a blemish, [or] any evil thing; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or a sheep in which is a defect or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
2 And if there should be found in any one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee, a man or a woman who shall do that which is evil before the Lord thy God, so as to transgress his covenant,
2 If there is found among you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight in transgressing his covenant,
3 and they should go and serve other gods, and worship them, the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which he commanded thee not to do,
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,
4 and it be told thee, and thou shalt have inquired diligently, and, behold, the thing really took place, this abomination has been done in Israel;
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,
5 then shalt thou bring out that man, or that woman, and ye shall stone them with stones, and they shall die.
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.
6 He shall die on the testimony of two or three witnesses; a man who is put to death shall not be put to death for one witness.
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.
7 And the hand of the witnesses shall be upon him among the first to put him to death, and the hand of the people at the last; so shalt thou remove the evil one from among yourselves.
7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
8 And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;
8 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 within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.
9 then thou shalt arise and go up to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out [the matter] and report the judgment to thee.
9 You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.
10 And thou shalt act according to the thing which they shall report to thee out of the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt observe to do all whatsoever shall have been by law appointed to thee.
10 You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.
11 Thou shalt do according to the law and to the judgment which they shall declare to thee: thou shalt not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to thee.
11 According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
12 And the man whosoever shall act in haughtiness, so as not to hearken to the priest who stands to minister in the name of the Lord thy God, or the judge who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and thou shalt remove the evil one out of Israel.
12 The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
13 And all the people shall hear and fear, and shall no more commit impiety.
13 All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
14 And when thou shalt enter into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, and shalt inherit it and dwell in it, and shalt say, I will set a ruler over me, as also the other nations round about me;
14 When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”
15 thou shalt surely set over thee the ruler whom the Lord God shall choose: of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a ruler; thou shalt not have power to set over thee a stranger, because he is not thy brother.
15 you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
16 For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses; for the Lord said, Ye shall not anymore turn back by that way.
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 Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”
17 And he shall not multiply to himself wives, lest his heart turn away; and he shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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 And when he shall be established in his government, then shall he write for himself this repetition of the law into a book by the hands of the priests the Levites;
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 and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these commandments, and to observe these ordinances:
19 It shall be with him, and he shall read from it 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;
20 that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, that he depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.
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.
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 15:21; Malachi 1:8; Deuteronomy 23:18; Deuteronomy 24:4; Malachi 1:13–14
- 2 Judges 2:20; Hosea 8:1; Hosea 6:7; 2 Kings 18:12; Joshua 23:16
- 3 Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:5; Jeremiah 7:22–23; Job 31:26–27; Deuteronomy 4:19
- 4 Deuteronomy 13:12–14; John 7:51; Deuteronomy 19:18; Proverbs 25:2
- 5 Leviticus 24:14; Joshua 7:25; Leviticus 24:16; Deuteronomy 13:10–11; Deuteronomy 22:24
- 6 Hebrews 10:28; Numbers 35:30; Deuteronomy 19:15; Matthew 18:16; 1 Timothy 5:19
- 7 Deuteronomy 13:9; 1 Corinthians 5:13; Deuteronomy 17:12; Deuteronomy 13:5; Deuteronomy 24:7
- 8 Deuteronomy 12:5; Haggai 2:11; Deuteronomy 1:17; Exodus 18:26; Deuteronomy 19:17
- 9 Ezekiel 44:24; Malachi 2:7; Haggai 2:11; Jeremiah 18:18; Deuteronomy 19:17–21
- 10 Matthew 22:2–3
- 11 Joshua 1:7; 2 Peter 2:10; 2 Samuel 14:19; Deuteronomy 25:1; Titus 3:1
- 12 Deuteronomy 13:5; Numbers 15:30; Deuteronomy 10:8; Hebrews 10:26–29; 1 Timothy 5:20
- 13 Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 19:20; Numbers 15:30–31
- 14 1 Samuel 8:19–20; 1 Samuel 12:19; Joshua 1:13; 1 Samuel 8:5–7; Deuteronomy 26:9
- 15 Jeremiah 30:21; 1 Chronicles 22:10; 1 Samuel 10:24; 1 Samuel 16:12–13; 1 Chronicles 12:23
- 16 Isaiah 31:1–3; Deuteronomy 28:68; Ezekiel 17:15; Hosea 11:5; Psalm 20:7
- 17 Nehemiah 13:26; Proverbs 30:8–9; Matthew 19:5; 1 Kings 11:1–4; Psalm 62:10
- 18 2 Chronicles 34:15; 2 Kings 11:12; Deuteronomy 31:24–26; 2 Kings 22:8; Deuteronomy 31:9
- 19 Joshua 1:8; Psalm 119:97–100; Psalm 1:2; 2 Timothy 3:15–17; John 5:39
- 20 1 Kings 15:5; Deuteronomy 5:32; Isaiah 2:12; Psalm 131:1–2; Daniel 5:20–23
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