Deuteronomy 17:14–20

¹⁴When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, ^sI will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me; ¹⁵Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, ^twhom the Lord thy God shall choose: one ^ufrom among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. ¹⁶But he shall not multiply ^xhorses to himself, nor cause the people ^yto return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, ^zYe shall henceforth return no more that way. ¹⁷Neither ^ashall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. ^18bAnd 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 ^cbefore ^dthe priests the Levites: ¹⁹And ^eit shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that ^fhe may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: ²⁰That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he ^gturn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: ^hto the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.