Parallel DEU 17:8

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BSB § If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.

OEB No OEB DEU book available

WEB If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

WMB If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

NET If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, legal claim, or assault – matters of controversy in your villages – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.

LSV When anything is too hard for you for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within your gates—then you have risen and gone up to the place on which your God YHWH fixes,

FBV If there's a case before your town court that is too problematic for you to settle, whether the argument is over murder or manslaughter, one legal decision against another, or different degrees of assault, you must take the issue to the place the Lord your God will choose.

T4T “Sometimes it will be very difficult for a judge to decide what really happened. He might be trying to decide whether, when someone injured or killed another person, he did it accidentally or deliberately. Or he might be trying to decide if some person is suing another person unfairly. If in some town it is very difficult to know what really happened, with the result that the judge cannot decide it, you should go to the place that Yahweh our God has chosen for you to worship him.

LEB “If a matter is too difficult for you,[fn]for example disputes between blood and blood,[fn] between legal claim and legal claim[fn] and between assault and assault[fn]and between matters of discernment in your towns,[fn] then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;

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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;

MOF No MOF DEU book available

JPS If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose.

ASV If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose;

DRA If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.

YLT 'When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke — matters of strife within thy gates — then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix,

DBY If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, matters of controversy within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and go up to the place which Jehovah thy [fn]God will choose.

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RV If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

WBS If there shall arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and go up to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

KJB ¶ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
  (¶ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy/your gates: then shalt thou/you arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy/your God shall choose; )

BB If there rise a matter to harde for thee in iudgement betweene blood and blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, and the matters come to strife within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee vp vnto the place whiche the Lorde thy God hath chosen,
  (If there rise a matter to harde for thee in judgement between blood and blood, between plea and plea, between plague and plague, and the matters come to strife within thy/your gates: then shalt thou/you arise, and get thee up unto the place which the Lord thy/your God hath/has chosen,)

GNV If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgement betweene blood and blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse,
  (If there rise a matter too harde for thee in judgement between blood and blood, between plea and plea, between plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy/your gates, then shalt thou/you arise, and go up unto the place which the Lord thy/your God shall chuse, )

CB Yf a matter be to harde for the in iudgmet betwixte bloude and bloude, betwixte plee and plee, betwixte stroke and stroke, and yf there be matters of stryfe within thy gates then shalt thou ryse, and go vp vnto ye place that ye LORDE thy God hath chosen:
  (If a matter be to harde for the in iudgmet betwixte blood and blood, betwixte plee and plee, betwixte stroke and stroke, and if there be matters of strife within thy/your gates then shalt thou/you ryse, and go up unto ye/you_all place that ye/you_all LORD thy/your God hath/has chosen:)

WYC If thou perseyuest, that hard and douteful doom is at thee, bitwixe blood and blood, cause and cause, lepre and not lepre, and thou seest that the wordis of iugis with ynne thi yatis ben dyuerse; rise thou, and stie to the place which thi Lord God hath choose;
  (If thou/you perseyuest, that hard and douteful doom is at thee, between blood and blood, cause and cause, lepre and not lepre, and thou/you seest that the words of judges with ynne thy/your yatis been dyuerse; rise thou, and stie to the place which thy/your Lord God hath/has choose;)

LUT Wenn eine Sache vor Gericht dir zu schwer sein wird, zwischen Blut und Blut, zwischen Handel und Handel, zwischen Schaden und Schaden, und was zänkische Sachen sind in deinen Toren, so sollst du dich aufmachen und hinaufgehen zu der Stätte; die dir der HErr, dein GOtt, erwählen wird,
  (Wenn one Sache before/in_front_of Gericht you to schwer his wird, zwischen blood and blood, zwischen Handel and Handel, zwischen Schaden and Schaden, and was zänkische Sachen are in deinen Toren, so should you you/yourself aufmachen and hinaufgehen to the Stätte; the you the HErr, your God, erwählen wird,)

CLV Si difficile et ambiguum apud te judicium esse perspexeris inter sanguinem et sanguinem, causam et causam, lepram et lepram: et judicum intra portas tuas videris verba variari: surge, et ascende ad locum, quem elegerit Dominus Deus tuus.[fn]
  (When/But_if difficile and ambiguum apud you(sg) yudicium esse perspexeris between sanguinem and sanguinem, causam and causam, lepram and lepram: and yudicum intra portas tuas videris verba variari: surge, and ascende to locum, which elegerit Master God tuus.)

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BRN And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, [fn]between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;

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BrLXX Ἐὰν δὲ ἀδυνατήσῃ ἀπὸ σοῦ ῥῆμα ἐν κρίσει ἀναμέσον αἷμα αἵματος, καὶ ἀναμέσον κρίσις κρίσεως, καὶ ἀναμέσον ἁφὴ ἁφῆς, καὶ ἀναμέσον ἀντιλογία ἀντιλογίας, ῥήματα κρίσεως ἐν ταῖς πόλεσιν ὑμῶν, καὶ ἀναστὰς ἀναβήσῃ εἰς τὸν τόπον ὃν ἂν ἐκλέξηται Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ἐκεῖ,
  (Ean de adunataʸsaʸ apo sou ɽaʸma en krisei anameson haima haimatos, kai anameson krisis kriseōs, kai anameson hafaʸ hafaʸs, kai anameson antilogia antilogias, ɽaʸmata kriseōs en tais polesin humōn, kai anastas anabaʸsaʸ eis ton topon hon an eklexaʸtai Kurios ho Theos sou ekei, )