Torah
Devarim17
Deuteronomy · Chapter 17
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim
any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish,
or any evilfavouredness: for that
is an abomination unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim.
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim, in transgressing his b'rit,
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of shamayim, which I have not commanded;
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard
of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold,
it be true,
and the thing certain,
that such abomination is wrought in Yisra'el:
Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates,
even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death;
but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke,
being
matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim shall choose;
And thou shalt come unto the kohanim the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
According to the sentence of the torah which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee,
to
the right hand, nor
to the left.
And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the kohen that standeth to minister there before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Yisra'el.
And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
When thou art come unto the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that
are about me;
Thou shalt in any wise set
him king over thee, whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim shall choose:
one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which
is
not thy brother.
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Mitsrayim, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this torah in a book out of
that which is
before the kohanim the Levites:
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim, to keep all the words of this torah and these statutes, to do them:
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the mitsvah,
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 midst of Yisra'el.
Torah
Devarim18
Deuteronomy · Chapter 18
The kohanim the Levites,
and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Yisra'el: they shall eat the offerings of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) made by fire, and his inheritance.
Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
And this shall be the kohen’s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether
it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the kohen the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
The firstfruit
also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), him and his sons for ever.
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Yisra'el, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) shall choose;
Then he shall minister in the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim, as all his brethren the Levites
do, which stand there before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
When thou art come into the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
There shall not be found among you
any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination,
or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
For all that do these things
are an abomination unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH): and because of these abominations 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim doth drive them out from before thee.
Thou shalt be perfect with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim.
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim hath not suffered thee so
to do.
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim will raise up unto thee a Navi from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
According to all that thou desiredst of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) my Elohim, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto me, They have well
spoken that which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a Navi from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
And it shall come to pass,
that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require
it
of him.
But the navi, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that navi shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath not spoken?
When a navi speaketh in the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that
is the thing which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath not spoken,
but the navi hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Torah
Devarim19
Deuteronomy · Chapter 19
When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim hath cut off the nations, whose land 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee to possess it.
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
And this
is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he
was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
And if 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
If thou shalt keep all these mitsvot to do them, which I command thee this day, to love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee
for an inheritance, and
so blood be upon thee.
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away
the guilt of
innocent blood from Yisra'el, that it may go well with thee.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) thy Elohim giveth thee to possess it.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him
that which is wrong;
Then both the men, between whom the controversy
is, shall stand before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), before the kohanim and the judges, which shall be in those days;
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold,
if
the witness
be a false witness,
and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
And thine eye shall not pity;
but life
shall go
for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.