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For seven days, in the place he has chosen, thou shalt keep holiday in honour of the Lord thy God; so greatly will he prosper thy harvest and all the enterprises thou dost set thy hand to, that thou wilt have good reason to rejoice. (Deuteronomy 16, 15)
First the witnesses, then the rest of the people must put a hand to the deed, and so thou wilt rid thyself of the plague that infects thy company. (Deuteronomy 17, 7)
It may be that some matter of law will be too hard for thy unravelling; was it killing or murder? Is this claim just or that? Was the infection leprous or not? There is no agreement between the judges at thy own city gate. Up, then, make thy way to the place the Lord thy God has chosen, (Deuteronomy 17, 8)
Thou must needs give effect to the sentence they pronounce, these officers of the Lord’s chosen sanctuary; when they have told thee (Deuteronomy 17, 10)
so that all the people may take warning when they hear it, and there may be no contumacy thenceforward. (Deuteronomy 17, 13)
Once appointed, he must not raise troop after troop of horsemen, and turn his people’s eyes back towards Egypt, flushed with the pride of horsemanship;✻ the Lord strictly enjoins you never to tread that way again. (Deuteronomy 17, 16)
When the whole people or some one Israelite offers sacrifice, be the victim ox or sheep, the priests can claim the gift of shoulder and maw;✻ (Deuteronomy 18, 3)
Out of all thy tribes, the Lord has chosen Levi and his children to stand up and minister in the Lord’s name for ever. (Deuteronomy 18, 5)
If a Levite gives up his home in any city of Israel, for love of the place the Lord has chosen, and comes to dwell there instead, (Deuteronomy 18, 6)
provided always that thou dost keep his commandments, and do all that I bid thee this day, loving the Lord thy God, and following continually the path he has chosen for thee. Then it will be time to double the number of the cities aforesaid, adding three others, (Deuteronomy 19, 9)
When the hour of battle draws near, the high priest will take his stand there in front of the ranks, and say to the people, (Deuteronomy 20, 2)
Priests must be there, of Levi’s race; these are the men whom the Lord thy God has chosen to minister to him, and give their blessing in his name, and also to decide between right and wrong, clean and unclean. (Deuteronomy 21, 5)
