Deuteronomy 17:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it.

Haggai 2:11

In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came to Aggeus the prophet, saying:

Deuteronomy 1:17

There shall be no difference of persons. You shall hear the little as well as the great. Neither shall you respect any man's person, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it.

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of the priest shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 19:17

Both of them, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord in the sight of the priests and the judges that shall be in those days.

Deuteronomy 19:4

This shall be the law of the slayer that fleeth, whose life is to be saved: He that killeth his neighbour ignorantly, and who is proved to have had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before:

Numbers 35:16

If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.

Numbers 35:11

Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.

Exodus 22:2

If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood.

Exodus 21:28

If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

Exodus 21:22

If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.

Exodus 21:20

He that striketh his bondman or bondwoman with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him: and they judged the easier cases only.

Exodus 18:15

And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God.

Exodus 22:8

If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be brought to the gods, and shall swear that he did not lay his hand upon his neighbour's goods,

Deuteronomy 12:11

In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you: holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the first-fruits of your hands, and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just. And him whom they find to be wicked they shall condemn of wickedness.

Ezekiel 44:24

And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in my judgments, and shall judge: they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances in all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths.

Deuteronomy 12:14

But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes shalt thou offer sacrifices, and shalt do all that I command thee.

Deuteronomy 21:5

And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and that by their word every matter should be decided, and whatsoever is clean or unclean should be judged.

2 Samuel 15:2

And Absalom rising up early stood by the entrance of the gate; and when any man had business to come to the king's judgment, Absalom called him to him, and said: Of what city art thou? He answered, and said: Thy servant is of such a tribe of Israel.

1 Chronicles 26:29

But Chonenias and his sons were over the Isaarites, for the business abroad over Israel, to teach them and judge them.