16. Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed:
17. each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.
18. Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.
19. Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the innocent.
20. Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.
21. Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the Lord your God,
16. The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the Lord has told you, ‘You are not to go back that way again.’
17. He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
18. When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests.
19. It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees
20. and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.