Deuteronomy 17:8–13

⁸“^aIf any case is too difficult for you to decide, between ¹one kind of homicide or another, between ²one kind of lawsuit or another, and between ³one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your ⁴courts, then you shall arise and go up to ^bthe place which the Lord your God chooses.

⁹“So you shall come to ^athe Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case.

¹⁰“You shall do according to the ¹terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be careful to observe according to all that they teach you.

¹¹“^aAccording to the ¹terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.

¹²“The man who acts ^apresumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the Lord your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

¹³“Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will not act ^apresumptuously again.