BRAGADAYJAH
558
God’s
Command to Obey Authority.
The
Lord commanded with regard to judgment, that if there arose a matter too
difficult in an adjudication between blood and blood, or plea and plea, or
stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within the gate, then the
matter should be taken to a higher place, a place chosen by God, and the matter
referred there to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is the
presiding judge at that time; and they shall declare the judgment and the
sentence which is appropriate to the matter. Then the matter must be disposed
of in accordance with the sentence and the judgment which has been thus
declared. And a man cannot refuse in any way to carry out the judgment as
directed, which must be carried out without deviation therefrom, neither to the
right nor to the left. And any man who would be presumptuous and not listen to
the judgment of the priest who stands before the Lord to do His justice, or to
the judge that pronounces it, that man shall be cut off, so that his evil may
be put away from Israel, and so that all the people shall hear and fear and no
more seek to act presumptuously contrary to the commandment of the Lord your
God.
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