Deuteronomy 17:8-13

The Voice

⁸ If one person in your town brings a complaint against another to be judged at the city gate, and it’s just too difficult for you to decide what a fair resolution would be—if you can’t determine whether a killing was premeditated, or if you can’t decide who in a dispute makes the best argument, or if you can’t tell whether someone was injured accidentally or intentionally—then adjourn your proceedings and go to the place the Eternal your God will choose. ⁹ Bring your case to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is serving at the time, and they will give you a verdict. ¹⁰ You must carry out their verdict exactly as they stated it because it was delivered in the place the Eternal chose, and it has His authority behind it. ¹¹ Follow each word of the law as they interpret it for you; do everything they’ve told you to do, as they’ve explained it, without deviating from it at all. ¹² If anyone is so arrogant that he won’t listen to the priest who serves right there in the presence of the Eternal your God or to the judge of the tribunal, that person must be executed to expel this kind of wickedness from Israel. ¹³ Everyone will hear about it, and no one will dare to be so arrogant, for they will be afraid.