²¹ Moreover, he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him ^(A)by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his ^[a]command they shall go out, and at his ^[b]command they shall come in, both he and all the sons of Israel with him, all the congregation.”

⁸ “^(A)If a case is too difficult for you to decide, between ^[a]one kind of homicide or another, between ^[b]one kind of lawsuit or another, and between ^[c]one kind of assault or another, that are cases of dispute in your ^[d]courts, then you shall arise and go up to ^(B)the place which the Lord your God chooses. ⁹ So you shall come to ^(C)the Levitical priests or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the ^[e]verdict. ¹⁰ Then you shall act in accordance with the ^[f]terms of the verdict which they declare to you from that place which the Lord chooses; and you shall be careful to act in accordance with everything that they instruct you to do. ^11 (D)In accordance with the ^[g]terms of the law about which they instruct you, and in accordance with the verdict which they tell you, you shall act; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.

¹⁸ Then they said, “Come and let’s ^(A)devise plans against Jeremiah. Certainly the ^(B)Law is not going to be lost by the priest, nor ^(C)advice by the wise, nor the divine ^(D)word by the prophet! Come, and let’s ^(E)strike at him with our tongue, and let’s ^(F)pay no attention to any of his words.”

^26 (A)Disaster will come upon disaster and ^(B)rumor will be added to rumor; then they will seek a ^(C)vision from a prophet, but the ^(D)Law will be lost from the priest, and ^(E)counsel from the elders.