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Elders sit in a close circle around a plain bench in sober discussion.
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Deuteronomy 17:8

A Judgment Too Difficult

Inquire Thoroughly and Keep the King under the Law · Deuteronomy 17

Story guide: A sober council discussion introduces judgments too difficult to resolve within the town gates.

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8If a matter for judgment is too difficult for you—between bloodshed and bloodshed, between one legal claim and another, and between one injury and another, matters of dispute within your gates—then you shall arise and go up to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.

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