13. All the people will hear about this and be afraid. They won’t act arrogantly anymore.
14. Once you have entered the land the Lord your God is giving you and you have taken possession of it and settled down in it, you might say: "Let’s appoint a king over us, as all our neighboring nations have done."
15. You can indeed appoint over you a king that the Lord your God selects. You can appoint over you a king who is one of your fellow Israelites. You are not allowed to appoint over you a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.
16. That granted, the king must not acquire too many horses, and he must not return the people to Egypt in order to acquire more horses, because the Lord told you: "You will never go back by that road again."
17. The king must not take numerous wives so that his heart doesn’t go astray. Nor can the king acquire too much silver and gold.