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Deuteronomy 17:3 Explained in Context

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Verse 3. And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

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Deuteronomy 17:3 specifies worship of gods, sun, moon, or heavenly host as the alleged breach.

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  • Deuteronomy 17:2–7

Read Deuteronomy 17:3 with 17:2–7. It specifies worship of gods, sun, moon, or heavenly host as the alleged breach. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: A man or woman accused of other worship faces diligent inquiry and a capital sentence only on two or three witnesses, with witnesses acting first and one witness barred from causing death.

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: Deuteronomy 17:2–7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Deut.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 17:2–7

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