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"^(C1)If a case is too difficult for you to decide, between ^(F1)one kind of homicide or another, between ^(F2)one kind of lawsuit or another, and between ^(F3)one kind of assault or another, that are cases of dispute in your ^(F4)courts, then you shall arise and go up to ^(C2)the place which the LORD your God chooses.

"So you shall come to ^(C1)the Levitical priests or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the ^(F1)verdict.

"Then you shall act in accordance with the ^(F1)terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the LORD chooses; and you shall be careful to act in accordance with everything that they instruct you to do.

"^(C1)In accordance with the ^(F1)terms of the law about which they instruct you, and in accordance with the verdict which they tell you, you shall act; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.