Deuteronomy 17:8-10

International Standard Version

Deciding Difficult Cases

⁸ “If a case is too difficult for you to decide with respect to bloodshed,^[a] civil claims,^[b] assault and battery,^[c] or other matters of dispute within your courts,^[d] bring^[e] it to the place that the Lord your God will choose. ⁹ Present the case^[f] to the Levitical priest or the judge at that time. When you have inquired and they have announced the verdict, ¹⁰ carry out the verdict that was declared to you at the place that the Lord will choose. Carefully observe all of their instructions to you