The cases in question were those that the lower judges felt unable to decide satisfactorily, and so they referred them to their superiors .

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Deuteronomy 17:8–20. THE SUPREMACY IN ISRAEL OF THE WRITTEN LAW OF GOD.

If there arise a matter too…

According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach
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For they were not to make any new law, but to …

Courts of judgment were to be set up in every city. Though their judgment did not have the Divine authority of an oracle, it was the judgment of wi…