Deuteronomy 21:5 Cross References - ACV

⁵ And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for LORD thy God has chosen them to minister to him, and to bless in the name of LORD, and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

²² And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²³ Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This way ye shall bless the sons of Israel: Ye shall say to them, ²⁴ LORD bless thee, and keep thee. ²⁵ LORD make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious to thee. ²⁶ LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. ²⁷ So shall they put my name upon the sons of Israel, and I will bless them.

⁸ At that time LORD set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of LORD, to stand before LORD to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

⁸ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates, then thou shall arise, and get thee up to the place which LORD thy God shall choose. ⁹ And thou shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and thou shall inquire. And they shall show thee the sentence of judgment. ¹⁰ And thou shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which LORD shall choose. And thou shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee, ¹¹ according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shall do. Thou shall not turn aside from the sentence, which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. ¹² And the man who does presumptuously, in not hearkening to the priest who stands to minister there before LORD thy God, or to the judge, even that man shall die, and thou shall put away the evil from Israel.

⁵ For LORD thy God has chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand to minister in the name of LORD, him and his sons forever.

¹⁷ then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days,

¹³ The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was separated that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before LORD, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth. For he is the messenger of LORD of hosts.