These verses are closely connected in subject with the following chapter and introduce certain directions for the administration of justice and the…

You shall not plant for yourself a grove. —Hebrew, ashêrah, sometimes referring to images, but here evidently to…

Thou shalt not plant thee. It is clear from the end of this verse that it is part of the Second Commandment.

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You shall not plant a grove of any trees
Of any sort of trees, as oaks or any other; not but that it was lawful to p…

Care is taken for the due administration of justice. All partiality must be set aside, so that right is done to all, and wrong to none.

Care…