⁹ For every ^[a]breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, ‘This is it,’ the ^[b]case of both parties shall come before ^[c](A)the judges; he whom ^[d]the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.

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.

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.