⁸ “If a matter is too difficult for you,^[a] for example disputes between blood and blood,^[b] between legal claim and legal claim^[c] and between assault and assault^[d] and between matters of discernment in your towns,^[e] then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose; ⁹ then you shall go to the priests and the Levites and to the judge who will be in office in those days, and you shall enquire, and they shall announce to you the verdict.^[f]

¹⁰ “And you shall carry out exactly the decision^[g] that they announced to you from that place that Yahweh will choose, and you shall diligently observe^[h] according to all that they instruct you. ¹¹ And so according to the instruction of the law^[i] that they teach you and according to the decisions that they say to you, you shall do; you shall not turn from the word that they tell you to the right or to the left. ¹² And the man who treats with contempt^[j] so as not to listen to the priest who is standing to minister on behalf of Yahweh your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel. ¹³ And all the people will hear and will be afraid, and they will not behave presumptuously again.