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Deuteronomy 17:8-13
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8 “Suppose a case arises in a local court that is too hard for you to decide—for instance, whether someone is guilty of murder or only of manslaughter, or a difficult lawsuit, or a case involving different kinds of assault. Take such legal cases to the place the Lord your God will choose, 9 and present them to the Levitical priests or the judge on duty at that time. They will hear the case and declare the verdict. 10 You must carry out the verdict they announce and the sentence they prescribe at the place the Lord chooses. You must do exactly what they say. 11 After they have interpreted the law and declared their verdict, the sentence they impose must be fully executed; do not modify it in any way. 12 Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the Lord your God must die. In this way you will purge the evil from Israel. 13 Then everyone else will hear about it and be afraid to act so arrogantly.

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Deuteronomy 17:8-13
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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 17:8 Literally “If is difficult/wonderful from you a thing for judgment”
  2. Deuteronomy 17:8 Or “between one homicide and another”
  3. Deuteronomy 17:8 Or “one kind of lawsuit and another”
  4. Deuteronomy 17:8 Or “one kind of abuse and another”
  5. Deuteronomy 17:8 Literally “gates”
  6. Deuteronomy 17:9 Literally “the word of the decision”
  7. Deuteronomy 17:10 Literally “and you shall do according to the mouth of the word”
  8. Deuteronomy 17:10 Literally “and you shall observe and do”
  9. Deuteronomy 17:11 Literally “mouth of the law”
  10. Deuteronomy 17:12 Or “acts presumptuously”
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