⁸“If a matter is too difficult for you,^p for example disputes between blood and blood,^q between legal claim and legal claim^r and between assault and assault^s and between matters of discernment in your towns,^t then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;

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pLiterally “If is difficult/wonderful from you a thing for judgment”
qOr “between one homicide and another”
rOr “one kind of lawsuit and another”
sOr “one kind of abuse and another”
tLiterally “gates”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults—take them to the place the Lord your God will choose.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“If a case is too difficult for you—concerning bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults—cases disputed at your city gates, then go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Suppose a case arises in a local court that is too hard for you to decide—for instance, whether someone is guilty of murder or only of manslaughter, or a difficult lawsuit, or a case involving different kinds of assault. Take such legal cases to the place the Lord your God will choose,

KJV 1900King James Version

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between 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 into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;

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