If there is found among you, in one of the settlements that your God יהוה is giving you, a man or woman who has affronted your God יהוה and transgressed the Covenant—
and you have been informed or have learned of it, then you shall make a thorough inquiry. If it is true, the fact is established, that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in Israel,
Let the hands of the witnesses be the first to put [the condemned] to death, followed by the hands of the rest of the people. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.
If a case is too baffling for you to decide, be it a controversy over homicide, civil law, or assault—matters of dispute in your courts—you shall promptly repair to the place that your God יהוה will have chosen,
and appear before the levitical priests, or the magistrate in charge at the time, and present your problem. When they have announced to you the verdict in the case,
You shall act in accordance with the instructions given you and the ruling handed down to you; you must not deviate from the verdict that they announce to you either to the right or to the left.
Should either party [to the dispute] act presumptuously and disregard the priest charged with serving there your God יהוה, or the magistrate, that party shall die. Thus you will sweep out evil from Israel:
Word-by-Word Analysis
והאיש
322
אשריעשה
886
בזדון
69
לבלתי
472
שמע
410
אלהכהן
111
העמד
119
לשרת
930
שם
340
אתיהוה
427
אלהיך
66
או
7
אלהשפט
425
ומת
446
האיש
316
ההוא
17
ובערת
678
הרע
275
מישראל
581
Deuteronomy 17:13
Gematria: 1084
וכלהעםישמעוויראוולאיזידוןעודס
all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.
If, after you have entered the land that your God יהוה has assigned to you, and taken possession of it and settled in it, you decide, “I will set a king over me, as do all the nations about me,”
you shall be free to set a king over yourself, one chosen by your God יהוה. Be sure to set as king over yourself one of your own people; you must not set a foreigner over you, one who is not your kin.
Moreover, he shall not keep many horses or send people back to Egypt to add to his horses, since יהוה has warned you, “You must not go back that way again.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
רק
300
לאירבהלו
284
סוסים
176
ולאישיב
359
אתהעם
516
מצרימה
385
למען
190
הרבות
613
סוס
126
ויהוה
32
אמר
241
לכם
90
לא
31
תספון
596
לשוב
338
בדרך
226
הזה
17
עוד
80
Deuteronomy 17:17
Gematria: 1558
ולאירבהלונשיםולאיסורלבבווכסףוזהבלאירבהלומאד
And he shall not have many wives, lest his heart go astray; nor shall he amass silver and gold to excess.
When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this Teaching written for him on a scroll by by Nuance of Heb. milliphne uncertain. the levitical priests.
Let it remain with him and let him read in it all his life, so that he may learn to revere his God יהוה, to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching as well as these laws.
Thus he will not act haughtily toward his fellows or deviate from the Instruction to the right or to the left, to the end that he and his descendants may reign long in the midst of Israel.