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Deuteronomy 17:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Deuteronomy 17:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Limitations of Royal Authority
14 “When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’(A)
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Deuteronomy 17:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Deuteronomy 17:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 you may indeed set over you a king whom the Lord your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.(A)
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