Deuteronomy 17:8-11
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8“aIf any case is too difficult for you to judge, between 1one kind of homicide or another, between 2one kind of lawsuit or another, and between 3one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your gates, then you shall arise and go up to bthe place which Yahweh your God chooses. 9“So you shall come to athe 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. 10“And you shall do according to the 1terms of the judgment which they declare to you from that place which Yahweh chooses; and you shall be careful to do according to all that they teach you. 11“aAccording to the 1terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.