'Legal' in the Bible
He replied, "You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well."
So they placed him in custody until they were able to make a clear legal decision for themselves based on words from the mouth of the Lord.
and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, as the Lord commanded Moses.'"
If a matter is too difficult for you to judge -- bloodshed, legal claim, or assault -- matters of controversy in your villages -- you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.
He judges the world fairly; he makes just legal decisions for the nations.
He says, "How long will you make unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked? (Selah)
The king is strong; he loves justice. You ensure that legal decisions will be made fairly; you promote justice and equity in Jacob.
Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.
The righteous person cares for the legal rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such knowledge.
lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.
Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying.
Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of God's instructions and give it to my followers.
Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer -- priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.
They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.
Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the Lord and say, "The Lord is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!"
"It was said, 'Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.'
But if you want anything in addition, it will have to be settled in a legal assembly.
When they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing nearby, "Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen without a proper trial?"
When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?
who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.