5.Mose 17 | Bibelen på hverdagsdansk
1De får, geder eller okser, I ofrer til Herren, må ikke være syge eller have fysiske skavanker. Den slags bryder Herren sig ikke om.2Hvis I hører om nogle mænd eller kvinder i landets byer, der har brudt den pagt, I har sluttet med Herren, jeres Gud, og trodset hans befaling ved at dyrke afguder eller tilbede solen, månen eller stjernerne,4skal I først undersøge, om rygtet taler sandt. Hvis der virkelig er tale om afgudsdyrkelse,5skal vedkommende pågribes, føres uden for byen og stenes til døde.6Henret aldrig nogen på grundlag af et enkelt vidneudsagn. Der skal mindst to eller tre vidner til.7Vidnerne skal kaste de første sten, hvorefter de øvrige tilstedeværende skal stene den skyldige til døde. Derved fjerner I det onde fra jeres midte.
Den øverste domstol
8Visse retssager kan synes for komplicerede for de lokale dommere. Det kan dreje sig om ejendomsret, uagtsomt manddrab eller voldelige overfald. Den slags sager skal I overdrage til præsterne og den fungerende dommer ved helligdommen.10Den dom, de fælder, kan ikke appelleres, men må følges til punkt og prikke.12Hvis de anklagede nægter at anerkende den dom, som den ansvarlige præst eller dommer fælder, skal de straffes med døden. Den slags egenrådighed skal udryddes i Israel.13Når folk hører om det, vil de blive bange og ikke gøre oprør en anden gang.
Bestemmelser om kongemagten
14Når I har indtaget det land, Herren, jeres Gud, vil give jer, og slået jer ned i landet, og I så tænker: ‚Vi burde have en konge ligesom vores nabofolk,’15må I ikke selv vælge en konge, men vente på, at Herren viser jer, hvem det skal være. Kongen skal være israelit, ikke udlænding,16og han må ikke anskaffe sig masser af heste til sine krigstogter. Han må heller ikke sende folk til Egypten for at opkøbe heste, for Herren har udtrykkeligt advaret jer imod at vende tilbage til Egypten.17Kongen må ikke tage sig mange koner, for at hans hjerte ikke skal vende sig fra Herren. Rigdom i store mængder må han heller ikke skaffe sig.18Så snart han er blevet indsat og sætter sig på kongetronen, skal han få lavet sin egen kopi af lovbogen, som findes i præsternes varetægt.19Denne kopi skal han altid have ved hånden, og han skal læse i den hver dag, så han kan lære at frygte Herren, adlyde hans befalinger og ikke føle sig hævet over sine landsmænd. Så vil han få lov at regere længe, og hans slægt vil få lov at sidde på Israels trone i mange generationer.
English Standard Version
1“You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.2“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant,3and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden,4and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel,5then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.6On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.7The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge* the evil* from your midst.
Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges
8“If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose.9And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.10Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the Lord will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.11According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.12The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.13And all the people shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.
Laws Concerning Israel’s Kings
14“When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’15you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.16Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’17And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.18“And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by* the Levitical priests.19And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,20that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
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