¶ If there be found among you in any of thy cities, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or [a]woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them: as the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not [b]commanded,

And it be told unto thee, and thou hast heard it, then shalt thou inquire diligently: and if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:2 Showing that the crime cannot be excused by the frailty of the person.
  2. Deuteronomy 17:3 Whereby he condemneth all religion and serving of God which God hath not commanded.

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