Chapter 17
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When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you and possess it and dwell in it, and you say, "I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,"
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You shall set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses from among your brothers. You shall set a king over you. You shall not set over you a foreigner who is not your brother.
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He shall not multiply horses for himself, and he shall not cause the people to return to Egypt in order to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, "You shall not continue to return in this way again."
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He shall not multiply wives for himself, and his heart shall not turn away, and he shall not multiply silver and gold for himself very much.
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When he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this Torah on a scroll from before the priests, the Levites.
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It shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, in order that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this Torah and these statutes, to do them.
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so that he may not lift his heart above his brothers and so that he may not turn from the commandment to the right or left, so that he may prolong his days upon his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.