¹⁵ And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:

³⁴ And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him.

⁵ So Moses put their cause before the Lord.

¹⁹ Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

²⁰ Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do.

¹² And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.

¹³ And the Lord said to Moses,

¹⁴ Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people.

⁶ And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

⁸ And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you.

⁸ 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;

⁹ And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

¹⁰ And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

¹¹ Acting in agreement with their teaching and the decision they give: not turning to one side or the other from the word they have given you.

¹² And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you are to put away the evil from Israel.

¹³ And all the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear and put away their pride.