Deuteronomy 21:2

your elders and judges must go and measure the distance from the body to each of the neighboring cities.

Deuteronomy 16:18-19

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city Jehovah your God gives you. They are to judge the people fairly.

Romans 13:3-4

For rulers are objects of fear, not to good works, but to the evil. Will you not have respect for the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from it.

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Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

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Deuteronomy 16:18
Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city Jehovah your God gives you. They are to judge the people fairly.
Romans 13:3
For rulers are objects of fear, not to good works, but to the evil. Will you not have respect for the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from it.