Deuteronomy 17:8
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.
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;
If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.
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 unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose;
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- arise
- Deuteronomy 1:17; Exodus 18:26; 1 Kings 3:16–28; 2 Chronicles 19:8–10; Haggai 2:11; Malachi 2:7
- between blood
- Deuteronomy 19:4, 10, 11; Exodus 21:12–14, 20, 22, 28; Exodus 22:2; Numbers 35:11, 16, 19–34
- get thee up
- Deuteronomy 12:5; Deuteronomy 19:17; Psalm 122:4, 5