And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. ] Delivered to them all the laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which were then given him at Mount Sinai.
16
I charged your judges at that time: "Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien.
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You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it."
18
So I charged you at that time with all the things that you should do.
19
Then, just as the Lord our God had ordered us, we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, until we reached Kadesh-barnea.
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I said to you, "You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.
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