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10 “And you shall carry out exactly the decision[a] that they announced to you from that place that Yahweh will choose, and you shall diligently observe[b] according to all that they instruct you. 11 And so according to the instruction of the law[c] that they teach you and according to the decisions that they say to you, you shall do; you shall not turn from the word that they tell you to the right or to the left. 12 And the man who treats with contempt[d] so as not to listen to the priest who is standing to minister on behalf of Yahweh your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:10 Literally “and you shall do according to the mouth of the word”
  2. Deuteronomy 17:10 Literally “and you shall observe and do”
  3. Deuteronomy 17:11 Literally “mouth of the law”
  4. Deuteronomy 17:12 Or “acts presumptuously”