Exodus 18:16
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“Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”
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And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”
If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!
See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”
Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”