If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling.
Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he sh
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be pu
If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished
At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the
both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at t
And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any minor issue they would j
where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of t
Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his n
The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge
Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you wil