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Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 17

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Chapter 17 of Deuteronomy—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “You must not sacrifice to Jehovah your God a bull or a sheep in which there proves to be a defect, anything bad; because it is a thing detestable to Jehovah your God.1
  2. ¶ “In case there should be found in your midst in one of your cities that Jehovah your God is giving you a man or a woman who should practice what is bad in the eyes of Jehovah your God so as to overstep his covenant,2
  3. and he should go and worship other gods and bow down to them or to the sun or the moon or all the army[a] of the heavens,3 a thing that I have not commanded,4
  4. and it has been told you and you have heard it and have searched thoroughly, and, look! the thing is established as the truth,5 this detestable thing has been done in Israel!
  5. you must also bring that man or that woman who has done this bad thing out to your gates, yes, the man or the woman, and you must stone such one with stones, and such one must die.6
  6. At the mouth[b] of two witnesses or of three witnesses7 the one dying should be put to death. He will not be put to death at the mouth of one witness.8
  7. The hand of the witnesses first of all should come upon him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward;9 and you must clear out what is bad from your midst.10
  8. ¶ “In case a matter for judicial decision should be too extraordinary for you,11 one in which blood has been shed,12 in which a legal claim has been raised,13 or a violent deed has been committed,[c] matters of dispute,14 inside your gates, you must also rise and go up to the place that Jehovah your God will choose,15
  9. and you must go to the priests,16 the Levites, and to the judge17 who will be acting in those days, and you must make inquiry, and they must hand down to you the word of the judicial decision.18
  10. Then you must do in accordance with the word that they will hand down to you from that place which Jehovah will choose; and you must be careful to do according to all that they instruct you.
  11. In accordance with the law that they will point out to you, and according to the judicial decision that they will say to you, you should do.19 You must not turn aside from the word that they will hand down to you, to the right or to the left.20
  12. And the man who will behave with presumptuousness in not listening to the priest who is standing to minister there to Jehovah your God or to the judge,21 that man must die;22 and you must clear out what is bad from Israel.23
  13. And all the people will hear and become afraid,24 and they will not act presumptuously anymore.
  14. ¶ “When you eventually come into the land that Jehovah your God is giving you, and you have taken possession of it and have dwelt in it,25 and you have said, ‘Let me set a king over myself like all the nations who are round about me’;26
  15. you should without fail set over yourself a king whom Jehovah your God will choose.27 From among your brothers you should set a king over yourself. You will not be allowed to put over yourself a foreigner who is not your brother.
  16. Only he should not increase horses for himself,28 nor make the people go back to Egypt in order to increase horses;29 whereas Jehovah has said to YOU, ‘YOU must never go back again by this way.’
  17. He should also not multiply wives for himself, that his heart may not turn aside;30 nor should he increase silver and gold for himself very much.31
  18. And it must occur that when he takes his seat on the throne of his kingdom, he must write in a book for himself a copy of this law from that which is in the charge of the priests, the Levites.[d]32
  19. ¶ “And it must continue with him, and he must read in it all the days of his life,33 in order that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God so as to keep all the words of this law and these regulations by doing them;34
  20. that his heart may not exalt itself above his brothers35 and that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left,36 in order that he may lengthen his days upon his kingdom,37 he and his sons in the midst of Israel.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “host.”
  2. ^ Or, “On the statement.”
  3. ^ Lit., “between blood and blood, between legal claim and legal claim, and between violent deed and violent deed.”
  4. ^ Lit., “a copy of this law from before the priests, the Levites,” M; LXX, “this deu·te·ro·noʹmi·on (second law) by means of (issuing from) the priests, the Levites”; Vg, “a deu·te·ro·noʹmi·um of this law, taking (accepting) an exemplar from the priests of the Levitic tribe.” Compare 1:1 ftn, “Words.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Le 22:20; De 15:21; Ml 1:8
  2. ^ De 4:23; 13:6; Jg 2:20
  3. ^ De 4:19; Je 8:2; Eze 8:16
  4. ^ Je 7:18; 19:5
  5. ^ De 13:14; Jn 7:51
  6. ^ De 13:10
  7. ^ Nu 35:30; Mt 18:16; Jn 8:17; 2Co 13:1; 1Ti 5:19; Heb 10:28
  8. ^ De 19:15
  9. ^ De 13:9
  10. ^ De 13:5; 1Co 5:13
  11. ^ De 1:17
  12. ^ Nu 35:11
  13. ^ 1Ki 3:28; Is 1:17; Je 5:28
  14. ^ 1Ki 3:16
  15. ^ De 12:5; Ps 122:2, 5
  16. ^ De 19:17; 21:5; Hg 2:11; Ml 2:7
  17. ^ 1Sa 7:16
  18. ^ De 19:17; 21:5
  19. ^ Ml 2:7
  20. ^ De 5:32; 12:32; Jos 1:7; Pr 4:27
  21. ^ Ps 19:13; Pr 11:2; Ho 4:4
  22. ^ Heb 10:28
  23. ^ De 13:5; 1Co 5:13
  24. ^ Nu 15:31; De 13:11; 19:20
  25. ^ De 7:1; Jos 1:3; Ps 44:2
  26. ^ 1Sa 8:5, 20; 10:19
  27. ^ 1Sa 9:17; 10:24; 16:12
  28. ^ De 20:1; 2Sa 8:4; Ps 20:7; Pr 21:31
  29. ^ Is 31:1; 36:9; Eze 17:15
  30. ^ 1Ki 11:3; Ne 13:26
  31. ^ Jb 31:24; Ps 62:10; 1Ti 6:9
  32. ^ De 31:9, 26; 2Ki 22:8
  33. ^ 2Ch 34:18
  34. ^ De 11:18; Ps 1:2; 119:97
  35. ^ 1Sa 15:17; 2Ch 32:25; Ps 131:1; Mr 10:42; 1Pe 5:5
  36. ^ De 5:32; 1Sa 13:13; 1Ki 15:5
  37. ^ Pr 10:27

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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