Deuteronomy 16:18 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁸ “Choose men to be judges and officers in every town that the Lord your God gives you. Every family group must do this. And these men must be fair in judging the people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every city that the LORD your God gives you. They must judge the people fairly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ You shall appoint judges and magistrates at all your gates, which the Lord your God will give to you, throughout each of your tribes, so that they may judge the people with a just judgment,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes. That they may judge the people with just judgment,

Deuteronomy 16:18 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 23:4

David said, “24,000 Levites will supervise the work of building the Lord’s temple. {\cf2\super [245]} 6,000 Levites will be policemen and judges.

1 Chronicles 26:29

Kenaniah was from the Izhar family. Kenaniah and his sons had work outside the temple. They worked as policemen and judges in different places in Israel.

Ezra 7:25

Ezra, I give you the authority to use the wisdom you have from your God and choose civil and religious judges. These men will be judges for all the people living in the area west of the Euphrates River. They will judge all the people who know the laws of your God. And if someone doesn’t know those laws, those judges must teach him about those laws.

Exodus 18:21

But you should also choose some of the people to be judges and leaders.

Exodus 21:22

“Two men might be fighting and they might hurt a pregnant woman. This might make the woman give birth to her babies {before their time}. If the woman was not hurt badly, [137] then the man who hurt her must pay a fine. The woman’s husband will decide how much the man must pay. The judges will help the man decide how much the fine will be.

Exodus 21:6

If this happens, then the master will bring the slave before God. The master will take the slave to a door or the wooden frame around the door. And the master will make a hole through the slave’s ear using a sharp tool. Then the slave will serve that master for all his life.

Proverbs 31:23

People respect her husband.\par He is one of the leaders of the land.\par

Matthew 5:21

“You have heard that it was said to our people long ago, ‘Don’t kill any person. {\cf2\super [63]} And any person that kills will be judged.’

Matthew 5:22

But I tell you, don’t be angry with another person. Every person is your brother. If you are angry with other people, you will be judged. And if you say bad things to another person, you will be judged by the Jewish council. And if you call another person a fool, you will be in danger of the fire of hell.

Deuteronomy 16:17

Each man should give as much as he can. He should decide how much to give by thinking about how much the Lord has given him.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must always be fair. You must not favor some people over other people. You must not take money to change your mind in judgment. Money blinds the eyes of wise people and changes what a good person will say.

Deuteronomy 17:12

“You must punish any person that refuses to obey the judge or the priest that is there at that time serving the Lord your God. That person must die. You must remove that evil person from Israel.

Deuteronomy 17:9

The priests are from the Levi family group. You must go to those priests and to the judge on duty at that time. Those men will decide what to do about that problem.

Deuteronomy 21:2

Then your leaders and judges must come out and measure the distance to the towns around the person that was killed.

Deuteronomy 25:1

“When two people have an argument, they should go to the court. The judges will decide which person is right and which person is wrong.

1 Samuel 8:1

When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges [89] for Israel.