H9002–/וְ–v

Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

וְשֹֽׁטְרִ֗ים (וְ) ve. “and”

You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וִֽיסַלֵּ֖ף (וִֽ) vi. “so”

Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, [ergänzt: or] anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

וָשֶׂ֗ה (וָ) va. “and”

and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of the sky, which I have not commanded;

וְלַשֶּׁ֣מֶשׁ׀ (וְ) ve. “and”

and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

וְהִנֵּ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

וְיַ֥ד (וְ) ve. “and”

If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

וּבֵ֥ין (וּ) u. “and”

and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

וְעַל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּשְׂמֹֽאל׃ (וּ) u. “and”

The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.

וְהָאִ֞ישׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְיִרָ֑אוּ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וַֽיהוָה֙ (וַֽ) va. “and”

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

וְלֹ֤א (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֶ֣סֶף (וְ) ve. “and”וְזָהָ֔ב (וְ) ve. “and”

and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn 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.

וּלְבִלְתִּ֛י (וּ) u. “and”וּשְׂמֹ֑אול (וּ) u. “and”וּבָנָ֖יו (וּ) u. “and”

The priests the Levites, [ergänzt: even] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his inheritance.

וְנַחֲלָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְנַחֲלָת֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”

They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.

וְנַחֲלָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

וְזֶ֡ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַלְּחָיַ֖יִם (וְ) ve. “and”וְהַקֵּבָֽה׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

The first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.

וְיִצְהָרֶ֗ךָ (וְ) ve. “and”וְרֵאשִׁ֛ית (וְ) ve. “and”

For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.

וּבָנָ֖יו (וּ) u. “and”

If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;

וְכִֽי־ (וְ) ve. “and”

There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices sorcery, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

וּבִתּ֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”וּמְנַחֵ֖שׁ (וּ) u. “and”וּמְכַשֵּֽׁף׃ (וּ) u. “and”

or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

וְחֹבֵ֖ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְשֹׁאֵ֥ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְיִדְּעֹנִ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”וְדֹרֵ֖שׁ (וְ) ve. “and”

For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.

וּבִגְלַל֙ (וּ) u. “and”