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13And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Deuteronomy 17:13

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  • And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

  • And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

  • But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

Courts of judgment were ordered to be erected in every city (Deut. 16:18), and they were empowered to hear and determine causes according to law, both those which we call pleas of the crown and those between party and party; and we may suppose that ordinarily they ended the matters that were brought before them, and their sentence was definitive; but, 1. It is here taken for granted that sometimes…

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