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 )
Deuteronomy 21:16
21:16 In the day he divides his inheritance 5 he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other 6 wife’s son who is actually the firstborn.
1 tnHeb “the priests, the sons of Levi.”
2 tnHeb “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 tnHeb “by their mouth.”
4 tnHeb “every controversy and every blow.”
5 tnHeb “when he causes his sons to inherit what is his.”