Deuteronomy 17:9

17:9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.

Deuteronomy 21:5

21:5 Then the Levitical priests ¹  will approach (for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, ²  and to decide ³  every judicial verdict ⁴ )

Malachi 2:7

2:7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him ⁵  because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all.

Matthew 23:2-3

23:2 “The ⁶  experts in the law ⁷  and the Pharisees ⁸  sit on Moses’ seat. 23:3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “the priests, the sons of Levi.”

² tn Heb “in the name of the Lord.” See note on Deut 10:8. The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

³ tn Heb “by their mouth.”

⁴ tn Heb “every controversy and every blow.”

⁵ tn Heb “from his mouth” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV).

⁶ tn Grk “saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

⁷ tn Or “The scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

⁸ sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.

⁹ tn Grk “for they say and do not do.”