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## Deuteronomy 17:16-20 in Context (Verses 13–20 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/17/13) And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/17/14) ¶ When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that *are* about me;
 
 [15 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/17/15) Thou shalt in any wise set *him* king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: *one* from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which *is* not thy brother.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/17/16) But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/17/17) Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/17/18) And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of *that which is* before the priests the Levites:
 
 [19 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/17/19) And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
 
 [20 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/17/20) That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, *to* the right hand, or *to* the left: to the end that he may prolong *his* days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
 
[Deuteronomy 16](/kjv/deuteronomy/16) [Deuteronomy 18](/kjv/deuteronomy/18)

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