Deuteronomy 17:7-9

New American Standard Bible

^7 (A)The hands of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. ^(B)So you shall eliminate the evil from your midst.

⁸ “^(C)If a case is too difficult for you to decide, 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, that are cases of dispute in your ^[d]courts, then you shall arise and go up to ^(D)the place which the Lord your God chooses. ⁹ So you shall come to ^(E)the Levitical priests or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the ^[e]verdict.