Deuteronomy 17:8-13
Legacy Standard Bible
Judging Cases
8 “(A)If any case is too difficult for you to judge, between [a]one kind of homicide or another, between [b]one kind of lawsuit or another, and between [c]one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your gates, then you shall arise and go up to (B)the place which Yahweh your God chooses. 9 So you shall come to (C)the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them, and they will declare to you the judgment in the case. 10 And you shall do according to the [d]terms of the judgment which they declare to you from that place which Yahweh chooses; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they teach you. 11 (D)According to the [e]terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left. 12 And the man who acts (E)presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to minister to Yahweh your God, or to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. 13 Then all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act (F)presumptuously again.
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- Deuteronomy 17:8 Lit blood to blood
- Deuteronomy 17:8 Lit judgment to judgment
- Deuteronomy 17:8 Lit stroke to stroke
- Deuteronomy 17:10 Lit mouth
- Deuteronomy 17:11 Lit mouth
Deuteronomy 17:8-13
New International Version
Law Courts
8 If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge(A)—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults(B)—take them to the place the Lord your God will choose.(C) 9 Go to the Levitical(D) priests and to the judge(E) who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict.(F) 10 You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the Lord will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do. 11 Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left.(G) 12 Anyone who shows contempt(H) for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering(I) there to the Lord your God is to be put to death.(J) You must purge the evil from Israel.(K) 13 All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.(L)
Deuteronomy 19:17
Legacy Standard Bible
17 then both the men who have the dispute shall stand (A)before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.
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Deuteronomy 19:17
New International Version
17 the two people involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the Lord before the priests and the judges(A) who are in office at the time.
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