9 to the levitical priests or to the judge who is in office at that time. They shall investigate the case and then announce to you the decision.
10 You shall act according to the decision they announce to you in the place which the Lord will choose, carefully observing everything as they instruct you.
11 You shall carry out the instruction they give you and the judgment they pronounce, without turning aside either to the right or left from the decision they announce to you.
12 Anyone who acts presumptuously and does not obey the priest who officiates there in the ministry of the Lord, your God, or the judge, shall die. Thus shall you purge the evil from Israel.
13 And all the people, on hearing of it, shall fear, and will never again act presumptuously.
14 When you have come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, should you then decide, “I will set a king over me, like all the surrounding nations,”
15 you may indeed set over you a king whom the Lord, your God, will choose. Someone from among your own kindred you may set over you as king; you may not set over you a foreigner, who is no kin of yours.