^17 (A)You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for ^(B)the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, ^(C)bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Laws of Social Responsibility

25 “If there is a ^(A)dispute between men, and they come to ^[a]court, that the judges may judge them, and they ^(B)justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

² then it shall be, if the wicked man ^(A)deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down ^(B)and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows.