Deuteronomy 17:8

Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges

8If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to athe place that the Lord your God will choose.

Proverbs 18:13

13If one gives an answer bbefore he hears,
it is his folly and shame.
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