KJV King James Version
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.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
WEB World English Bible
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people—a righteous judgment.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 16
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
17 Every man [shall give] as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
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.
19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
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שֹׁפְטִ֣יםH8199 · sha.phatto judgeוְשֹֽׁטְרִ֗יםH7860 · sho.terofficialתִּֽתֶּן־H5414 · na.tanto give: giveלְךָ֙H9031 · kayouבְּכָל־H3605 · kolallשְׁעָרֶ֔יךָH8179 · sha.argateאֲשֶׁ֨רH834 · a.sherwhichיְהוָ֧הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֱלֹהֶ֛יךָH430 · e.lo.himGodנֹתֵ֥ןH5414 · na.tanto give: giveלְךָ֖H9031 · kayouלִשְׁבָטֶ֑יךָH7626 · she.vettribe: staffוְשָׁפְט֥וּH8199 · sha.phatto judgeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָעָ֖םH5971 · ampeopleמִשְׁפַּט־H4941 · mish.patjustice: judgementצֶֽדֶק׃H6664 · tse.deqrighteousness
Cross-references
1 Chronicles 23:4Of which, twenty and four thousand [were] to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand [were] officers and judges:Deuteronomy 21:2Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which [are] round about him that is slain:Deuteronomy 17:9And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:2 Chronicles 19:5-11And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,Exodus 18:25-26And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.Deuteronomy 1:15-17So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.1 Chronicles 26:29Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.Exodus 21:6Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.Deuteronomy 19:17-18Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;Romans 13:1-6Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.Deuteronomy 17:12And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.Psalm 82:2-3How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
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