Judges and officers shall you appoint for yourselves in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God, that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all those that know the laws of your God; and teach those who know them not.
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, those who fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
If men argue, and hurt a woman with child, so that her baby departs from her, and yet no injury follows: he shall surely be punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Then his master shall bring him to the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or to the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
But I say to you, That whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whoever shall say to his brother, Good for nothing, shall be in danger of the council: but whoever shall say, You fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not favor any person, neither take a bribe: for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not listen to the priest that stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and you shall put away the evil from Israel.
And you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall make known to you the sentence of judgment:
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.