Deuteronomy 17:8 
Context| NET © | If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, 1 legal claim, 2 or assault 3 – matters of controversy in your villages 4 – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. 5 |
| NIV © | If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults—take them to the place the LORD your God will choose. |
| NASB © | "If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses. |
| NLT © | "Suppose a case arises in a local court that is too hard for you to decide––for instance, whether someone is guilty of murder or only of manslaughter, or a difficult lawsuit, or a case involving different kinds of assault. Take such cases to the place the LORD your God will choose, |
| MSG © | When matters of justice come up that are too much for you--hard cases regarding homicides, legal disputes, fights--take them up to the central place of worship that GOD, your God, has designated. |
| BBE © | If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God; |
| NRSV © | If a judicial decision is too difficult for you to make between one kind of bloodshed and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another—any such matters of dispute in your towns—then you shall immediately go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose, |
| NKJV © | "If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses. |
| KJV | If there arise a matter <01697> for thee in judgment <04941>_, between blood <01818> and blood <01818>_, between plea <01779> and plea <01779>_, and between stroke <05061> and stroke <05061>_, [being] matters <01697> of controversy <07379> within thy gates <08179>_: into the place <04725> which the LORD <03068> thy God <0430> |
| NASB © | "If <03588> any case <01697> is too <04480> difficult <06381> for you to decide <04941> , between <0996> one kind of homicide <01818> or another <01818> , between <0996> one kind of lawsuit <01779> or another <01779> , and between <0996> one kind of assault <05061> or another <05061> , being cases <01697> of dispute <07379> in your courts <08179> , then you shall arise <06965> and go <05927> up to the place <04725> which <0834> the LORD <03068> your God <0430> chooses .<0977> |
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| NET © [draft] ITL | If <03588> a matter <01697> is too difficult <06381> for you to judge <04941> – bloodshed <01818> , legal <01779> claim, or assault– matters <01697> <05061> <05061> <01779> of controversy <07379> in your villages <08179> – you must leave there <06963> <01779> and go up <05927> to <0413> the place <04725> the Lord <03068> your God <0430> chooses .<0977> |
| NET © | If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, 1 legal claim, 2 or assault 3 – matters of controversy in your villages 4 – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. 5 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “between blood and blood.” 2 tn Heb “between claim and claim.” 3 tn Heb “between blow and blow.” 4 tn Heb “gates.” 5 tc Several Greek recensions add “to place his name there,” thus completing the usual formula to describe the central sanctuary (cf. Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18; 16:6). However, the context suggests that the local Levitical towns, and not the central sanctuary, are in mind. |
