Deuteronomy 17:8-13 - Difficult Cases

⁸ If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you should go to the place Jehovah your God chooses. ⁹ Approach the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days. Inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case. ¹⁰ Act according to the terms of the verdict they declare to you from that place Jehovah chooses. Be careful to abide by all that they teach you. ¹¹ Act according to the verdict and the terms they tell you. Do not turn away from the word they declare to you. ¹² The man who acts presumptuously and does not listen to the priest or the judge will die. This way you will purge the evil from Israel. The priests and judges are there to serve Jehovah your God. ¹³ Then all the people will hear and be afraid. They will not act presumptuously again.