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you shall surelyset a kingover you whom the LORD your Godchooses, one 1from among your countrymen you shall set as kingover yourselves; you may not put a foreignerover yourselves who is not your countryman.
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"2Moreover, he shall not multiplyhorses for himself, nor shall he 3cause the people to return to Egypt to multiplyhorses, since 4the LORD has said to you, 'You shall neveragainreturn that way.'
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"5He shall not multiplywives for himself, orelse his heart will turnaway; nor shall he greatlyincreasesilver and gold for himself.
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"Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of thislaw on a scroll6in the presence of the Leviticalpriests.
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"It shall be with him and he shall read it 7all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by carefullyobservingall the words of thislaw and thesestatutes,
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that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen8and that he may not turnaside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continuelong* in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.