Deuteronomy 17:14-20 (New International Version)

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The King

14 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession¹ of it and settled in it,² and you say, "Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,"³ 15 be sure to appoint⁴ over you the king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your own brothers.⁵ Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not a brother Israelite. 16 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses⁶ for himself⁷ or make the people return to Egypt⁸ to get more of them,⁹ for the LORD has told you, "You are not to go back that way again."¹⁰ 17 He must not take many wives,¹¹ or his heart will be led astray.¹² He must not accumulate¹³ large amounts of silver and gold.¹⁴ 18 When he takes the throne¹⁵ of his kingdom, he is to write¹⁶ for himself on a scroll a copy¹⁷ of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites. 19 It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life¹⁸ so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees¹⁹ 20 and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law²⁰ to the right or to the left.²¹ Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.²²

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