and that, if any did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all their property should be forfeited and they themselves banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Deuteronomy 17:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 As for anyone who presumes to disobey the priest appointed to minister there to the Lord your God or the judge, that person shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The man who does presumptuously and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel. American Standard Version (1901) And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before Jehovah thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. Common English Bible And whoever acts rashly by not listening to the priest who is in office serving the LORD your God or to the head judge will die. Remove such evil from Israel! Catholic Public Domain Version But whoever will be arrogant, unwilling to obey the order of the priest who ministers at that time to the Lord your God, and the decree of the judge, that man shall die. And so shall you take away the evil from Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But he that will be proud, and refuse to obey the commandment of the priest, who ministereth at that time to the Lord thy God, and the decree of the judge: that man shall die, and thou shalt take away the evil from Israel. |
and that, if any did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all their property should be forfeited and they themselves banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Keep back your servant also from the insolent; do not let them have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
When a scoffer is punished, the simple become wiser; when the wise are instructed, they increase in knowledge.
Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my requirements, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.
But whoever acts high-handedly, whether native-born or an alien, affronts the Lord and shall be cut off from among the people.
Because of having despised the word of the Lord and broken his commandment, such a person shall be utterly cut off and bear the guilt.”
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.
“Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge,
If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
God will judge those outside. “Drive out the wicked person from among you.”
Although I told you, you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the Lord and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.
Then all Israel shall hear and be afraid and never again do any such wickedness.
But those prophets or those who divine by dreams shall be put to death for having spoken treason against the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to turn you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
“If anyone secretly entices you—even if it is your brother, your father’s son or your mother’s son, or your own son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your most intimate friend—saying, ‘Let us go serve other gods,’ whom neither you nor your ancestors have known,
All the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.
The hands of the witnesses shall be the first raised against the person to execute the death penalty and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
But any prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’
For the Lord your God has chosen Levi out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.
then he may minister in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow-Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord.
Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest also may stand in fear.
Whoever rebels against your orders and disobeys your words, whatever you command, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”
Now then, hand over those scoundrels in Gibeah so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to their kinsfolk, the Israelites.
For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.