Deuteronomy 17

1 not to sacrifice to/for LORD God your cattle and sheep which to be in/on/with him blemish all word: thing bad: harmful for abomination LORD God your he/she/it

“Do not sacrifice to Yahweh our God any cattle or sheep or goats that have any defects, because Yahweh hates that kind of gift.”

2 for to find in/on/with entrails: among your in/on/with one gate: town your which LORD God your to give: give to/for you man or woman which to make: do [obj] [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD God your to/for to pass: trespass covenant his

“When you are living in any of the towns [in the land] that Yahweh our God is giving to you, suppose you hear that there is some man or woman who sins by disobeying the agreement that Yahweh has made with you.

3 and to go: went and to serve: minister God another and to bow to/for them and to/for sun or to/for moon or to/for all army [the] heaven which not to command

Suppose someone tells you that that person has worshiped and served other gods, or the sun, or the moon, or the stars.

4 and to tell to/for you and to hear: hear and to seek be good and behold truth: true to establish: right [the] word: promised to make: do [the] abomination [the] this in/on/with Israel

If you hear that some person has been doing that, you must investigate it thoroughly. If [you find out that] it is true that this detestable thing has happened in Israel,

5 and to come out: send [obj] [the] man [the] he/she/it or [obj] [the] woman [the] he/she/it which to make: do [obj] [the] word: thing [the] bad: evil [the] this to(wards) gate your [obj] [the] man or [obj] [the] woman and to stone them in/on/with stone and to die

you must take outside the town the man or woman who has done it. Then you must kill that person by throwing stones at him or her.

6 upon lip: word two witness or three witness to die [the] to die not to die upon lip: word witness one

But you are allowed to execute such people only if at least two witnesses testify that they saw them [doing that]. They must not be executed if there is only one witness.

7 hand [the] witness to be in/on/with him in/on/with first to/for to die him and hand all [the] people in/on/with last and to burn: purge [the] bad: evil from entrails: among your

The (witnesses/ones who saw them doing it) must be the first ones to throw stones at them. Then the other people [MTY] [should throw stones at them]. By doing that, you will get rid of this evil practice among you.”

8 for to wonder from you word: case to/for justice: judgement between blood to/for blood between judgment to/for judgment and between plague to/for plague word: case strife in/on/with gate: town your and to arise: rise and to ascend: rise to(wards) [the] place which to choose LORD God your in/on/with him

“Sometimes it will be very difficult for a judge to decide what really happened. He might be trying to decide whether, when someone injured or killed another person, he did it accidentally or deliberately. Or he might be trying to decide if some person is suing another person unfairly. If in some town it is very difficult to know what really happened, with the result that the judge cannot decide it, you should go to the place that Yahweh our God has chosen for you [to worship him].

9 and to come (in): come to(wards) [the] priest [the] Levi and to(wards) [the] to judge which to be in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) and to seek and to tell to/for you [obj] word: promised [the] justice: judgement

There you should present the case to the descendants of Levi who are the priests, and to the judge who is serving at that time, and they should decide what should be done.

10 and to make: do upon lip: word [the] word: promised which to tell to/for you from [the] place [the] he/she/it which to choose LORD and to keep: careful to/for to make: do like/as all which to show you

After they make their decision, you must do what they tell you to do.

11 upon lip: word [the] instruction which to show you and upon [the] justice: judgement which to say to/for you to make: do not to turn aside: turn aside from [the] word: case which to tell to/for you right and left

Accept what they have decided, and do what they say that you should do. Do not try to change in any way what they have decided [IDM].

12 and [the] man which to make: do in/on/with arrogance to/for lest to hear: obey to(wards) [the] priest [the] to stand: stand to/for to minister there [obj] LORD God your or to(wards) [the] to judge and to die [the] man [the] he/she/it and to burn: purge [the] bad: evil from Israel

You must execute anyone who proudly/arrogantly disobeys the judge or the priest who stands there in the presence of Yahweh [and decides what should be done]. By doing that, you will get rid of evil practices among you.

13 and all [the] people to hear: hear and to fear and not to boil [emph?] still

Then [after that person is executed], all the people will hear about it, and they will be afraid, and none of them will act that way any more.”

14 for to come (in): come to(wards) [the] land: country/planet which LORD God your to give: give to/for you and to possess: take her and to dwell in/on/with her and to say to set: appoint upon me king like/as all [the] nation which around me

“[I know that] after you have occupied the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, and you are living there, you will say, ‘We should have a king to rule over us, like the kings that other nations around us have.’

15 to set: appoint to set: appoint upon you king which to choose LORD God your in/on/with him from entrails: among brother: compatriot your to set: appoint upon you king not be able to/for to give: put upon you man foreign which not brother: compatriot your he/she/it

Yahweh our God will permit you to have a king, but be sure that you appoint someone whom he has chosen. That man must be an Israeli; you must not appoint someone who is a foreigner to be your king.

16 except not to multiply to/for him horse and not to return: return [obj] [the] people Egypt [to] because to multiply horse and LORD to say to/for you not to add: again [emph?] to/for to return: return in/on/with way: road [the] this still

[After he becomes the king], he should not acquire a large number of horses for himself. He should not send people to Egypt to buy horses for him, because Yahweh said to you, ‘Never return to Egypt [for anything’]!

17 and not to multiply to/for him woman: wife and not to turn aside: turn aside heart his and silver: money and gold not to multiply to/for him much

And he must not have a lot of wives, because if he did that, they would turn him [SYN] away from [worshiping only] Yahweh. And he must not acquire a lot of silver and gold.

18 and to be like/as to dwell he upon throne kingdom his and to write to/for him [obj] second [the] instruction [the] this upon scroll: book from to/for face: before [the] priest [the] Levi

“When he becomes your king, he must [appoint someone to] copy these laws. He must copy them from the scroll that is kept by the priests who are descended from Levi.

19 and to be with him and to call: read out in/on/with him all day life his because to learn: learn to/for to fear: revere [obj] LORD God his to/for to keep: obey [obj] all word [the] instruction [the] this and [obj] [the] statute: decree [the] these to/for to make: do them

He must keep this new scroll near him and read from it every day of his life, in order that he may learn to revere Yahweh, and to faithfully obey [DOU] all the rules and regulations [that are written] in these laws.

20 to/for lest to exalt heart his from brother: compatriot his and to/for lest to turn aside: turn aside from [the] commandment right and left because to prolong day: always upon kingdom his he/she/it and son: descendant/people his in/on/with entrails: among Israel

If he does that, he [SYN] will not think that he is (better/more important) than [IDM] his fellow Israelis, and he will completely obey [LIT] Yahweh’s commands. As a result, he and his descendants will rule as kings in Israel for many years.”