From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for March 5   
      
   Deuteronomy Chapter 17   
      
   1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep,   
   wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination   
   unto the LORD thy God.   
      
   2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD   
   thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the   
   sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,   
      
   3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the   
   sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;   
      
   4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired   
   diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such   
   abomination is wrought in Israel:   
      
   5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have   
   committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that   
   woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.   
      
   6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is   
   worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he   
   shall not be put to death.   
      
   7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to   
   death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the   
   evil away from among you.   
      
   8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood   
   and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being   
   matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get   
   thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;   
      
   9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge   
   that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the   
   sentence of judgment:   
      
   10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place   
   which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to   
   do according to all that they inform thee:   
      
   11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and   
   according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do:   
   thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to   
   the right hand, nor to the left.   
      
   12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto   
   the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or   
   unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the   
   evil from Israel.   
      
   13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.   
      
   14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,   
   and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set   
   a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;   
      
   15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God   
   shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee:   
   thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.   
      
   16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to   
   return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as   
   the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.   
      
   17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not   
   away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.   
      
   18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that   
   he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is   
   before the priests the Levites:   
      
   19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of   
   his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the   
   words of this law and these statutes, to do them:   
      
   20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn   
   not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to   
   the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his   
   children, in the midst of Israel.   
      
   Deuteronomy Chapter 18   
      
   1 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part   
   nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD   
   made by fire, and his inheritance.   
      
   2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the   
   LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.   
      
   3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that   
   offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto   
   the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.   
      
   4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and   
   the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.   
      
   5 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand   
   to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.   
      
   6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he   
   sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which   
   the LORD shall choose;   
      
   7 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his   
   brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.   
      
   8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the   
   sale of his patrimony.   
      
   9 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,   
   thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.   
      
   10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his   
   daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an   
   observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,   
      
   11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a   
   necromancer.   
      
   12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and   
   because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from   
   before thee.   
      
   13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.   
      
   14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers   
   of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not   
   suffered thee so to do.   
      
   15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of   
   thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;   
      
   16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in   
   the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the   
   LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.   
      
   17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have   
   spoken.   
      
   18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto   
   thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them   
   all that I shall command him.   
      
   19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my   
   words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.   
      
   20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,   
   which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name   
   of other gods, even that prophet shall die.   
      
   21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the   
   LORD hath not spoken?   
      
      
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