Deuteronomy 17:8–13

^8lIf there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, ^lbetween blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up ^minto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose; ⁹and thou shalt come unto ^lthe priests the Levites, and unto ^lthe judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; ⁿand they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: ¹⁰and thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: ¹¹according to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. ¹²And the man that ^owill do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest ^pthat standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and ^qthou shalt put away the evil from Israel. ¹³And all the people ^rshall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.