The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. XVII.

2 The punishment of the idolater. 9 Hard controuersies are broght to the Priest and the iudge. 12 The contem∣ner muste dye. 15 The election of the Kyng. 16 and 17. What things he ought to auoide. 18 And what he ought to imbrace.

1 THou shalt offer vnto the Lorde thy God no bullocke nor shepe wherein isa ble∣mish (or) anie euill fauored thyng: for that is an abominacion vnto the Lord thy God.

2 ¶If there be found among you in anie of thy cities, whiche the Lord thy God giueth thee, man orb woman that hathe wroght wicked nes in the sight of the Lord thy God, in trans gressing his couenant.

3 And hathe gone and serued other gods, and worshipped them: as the sunne, or the moo∣ne, or anie of the hoste of heauen, whiche I haue notc commanded.

4 And it be tolde vnto thee, & thou hast heard it, then shalte thou inquire diligently: and if (it be) true, (and) the thing certeine, that su∣che abominacion is wroght in Israél.

5 Then shalte thou bryng forthe that man, or that woman [whyche haue committed that wicked thynge] vnto thy gates, (whether it be) man or woman, ād shalt stone them with

stones, til they dye.

6 *At the mouth of two or thre witnesses shal he that is worthy of death, dye: (but) at the mouth of one witnes, he shal not dye.

7 The hands of thed witnesses shalbe first v∣pon him, to kil him: and afterwarde the háds of all thee people: so thou shalt take the wic∣ked away from among you.

8 ¶If there rise a matter to hard for thee in iudgement betwene blood and blood, be∣twene plea and plea, betwene plague & pla∣gue, in the matter of cōtrouersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and go vp vnto the place which the Lord thy GOD shal chose,

9 And thou shalt come vnto the Priests of the Leuites, and vnto thef iudge that shalbe in those dayes, and aske, & thei shal she we thee the sentence of iudgement,

10 And thou shalt do according to that thing which they of that place [which the Lord hathe chosen] shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to do according to all that they in∣forme thee.

11 According to the Lawe, which they shal teach thee, and according to the iudgement whiche they shall tell thee, shalteg thou do: thou shalt not decline from the thyng whi∣che they shall shewe thee, (nether) to the right hand, nor to the left.

12 And that man that will do presumpteously, not heark enyng vnto the Priest [that stan∣deth before the Lorde thy God toh minister there] or vnto the iudge, that man shal dye, and thou shalt take away euil from Israél.

13 So all the people shall heare and feare, and do no more presumpteously.

14 ¶When thou shalte come vnto the lande whiche the Lord thy God giueth thee, and shalt possesse it, and dwel therein, if thou say, I wil set a King ouerme, like as all the naci∣ons that are about me.

15 (Thē) thou shalt make him King ouer thee, whome the Lord thy God shal chose: from amonge thy brethren shalte thou make a King ouer thee: thou shalt not set ai stranger ouer thee, which is not thy brother.

16 In anie wise he shal not prepare him manie horses, nor bring the people againe tok Egy pte for to increase the nōber of horses, seing the Lord hathe said vnto you, Ye shal hence forthe go no more againe that way.

17 Nether shall he take hym manie wiues, lest his heartl turne away, nether shal he gather him muche siluer and golde.

18 And when he shall sit vppon the throne of his kyngdome, then shall he write hym thism Lawe repeted in a boke, by then Priests of the Leuites.

19 And it shalbe wyth hym, and he shall read therein all dayes of hys lyfe, that he maye learne to feare the Lorde his God, (and) to kepe all the wordes of this Lawe, and these ordinances, for to do them:

20 That hys heart be not lyfted vp aboue hyso brethren, and that he turne not frome the commandement, to the ryght hande or the left, (but) that he maye prolong hys dayes in hys kyngdome, he, and hys sonnes in the middes of Israél.

Notes

• a

  Thou shalt not serue God for fa∣cions sake, as hy∣pocrites do.
• b

  Shewinge 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the crime cā not be excused by the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the persone.
• c

  VVhereby he condemneth all 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of God whi che he hathe 〈◊〉〈◊〉 commanded.
• Nomb. 35. 30.
• Chap. 19 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Mat. 18. 16.
• 2. Cor. 13. 1.
• d

  VVhereby they 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that thei testified the truth
• e

  To 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a cō 〈◊〉〈◊〉 consent to mainteine Gods honour and true 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• f

  VVho shal giue 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as the Priestes counsell him by the Law of God.
• g

  Thou shalte o∣bey their senten∣ce that the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 maye haue an end.
• h

  So long as he is the true minister of God, and pro∣nounceth accor∣ding to his word
• i

  VVho is not of thy nacion; leste he change true re ligion into 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and bring thee to 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• k

  To reuenge their 〈◊〉〈◊〉, ād to take them of their best horses.
• 1. King. 10. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• l

  From the Law of God.
• m

  Meaning, the Deuteronomie.
• n

  He shall 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it to be writ by them, or he shal write it by their example.
• o

  VVhereby 〈◊〉〈◊〉 mēt, that kynges ought so to loue their subiects, as nature byndeth one brother 〈◊〉〈◊〉 loue another.