Deuteronomy 17:8-13

New Life Version

⁸ “There may be a problem too hard for you to decide, between two kinds of killing, between two kinds of questions about the law, between two kinds of hurting, problems argued about in your courts. Then get up and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses. ⁹ Go to the Levite religious leader or the judge who is at work at that time. Ask them, and they will tell you what they decide. ¹⁰ Then do what should be done by what they tell you they have decided at that place which the Lord chooses. Be careful to do all they tell you. ¹¹ Do what they teach you about the Law and about what they decide. Do not turn aside from what they tell you to do, to the right or to the left. ¹² The man must die who does foolish things and will not listen to the judge or the religious leader who serves the Lord your God. You must get rid of sin from Israel. ¹³ Then all the people will hear and be afraid. They will not act in a foolish way again.