Deuteronomy 16:18

Justice Integrity

¹⁶ Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

¹⁷ Everyone must appear with a gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you.

You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁹ Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

²⁰ Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
KJV: Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
WEB: You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
ASV: Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
DARBY: Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes, that they may judge the people with just judgment.
BLB: You shall appoint judges and officers to you within all your gates that YHWH your God gives to you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

ÅB: Dommere og tilsynsmenn skal du innsette for deg i alle de byer som Herren din Gud gir deg, for hver av dine stammer, og de skal dømme folket etter lov og rett.
OTB: Utnevn dommere og embetsmenn for hver av dine stammer i hver by Herren din Gud gir deg, og de skal dømme folket med rettferdig dom.
B1930: Dommere og tilsynsmenn skal du innsette for dig i alle de byer som Herren din Gud gir dig, for hver av dine stammer, og de skal dømme folket efter lov og rett.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Chronicles 23:4
“Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges,
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Deuteronomy 1:15–17
So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.
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Romans 13:1–6
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
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1 Chronicles 26:29
From the Izrahites, Chenaniah and his sons had the outside duties as officers and judges over Israel.
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Deuteronomy 21:2
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
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Exodus 18:25–26
So Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
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Deuteronomy 17:12
But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
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2 Chronicles 19:5–11
He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.
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