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Deuteronomy 17:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Deuteronomy 17:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 As for anyone who presumes to disobey the priest appointed to minister there to the Lord your God or the judge, that person shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. 13 All the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.(A)
Limitations of Royal Authority
14 “When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’(B)
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