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14 When you enter the land that the LORD your God {YHWH Eloheka} is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” 15 you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God {YHWH Eloheka} shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers. 16 But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt (land of bondage) to acquire more horses, for the LORD {YHWH} has said, ‘You⁺ are never to go back that way again.’ 17 He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold. Deuteronomy 17:14-17, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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