Deuteronomy 17:8
Appeal to a Higher Court
17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, legal claim, or assault – matters of controversy in your villages – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.
Deuteronomy 21:5
21:5 Then the Levitical priests
will approach (for the
Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name,
and to decide
every judicial verdict
)