OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 16:20

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You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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Verse 20. Just. Hebrew “thou shalt follow justice.” Thou shalt be guided solely by the dictates of justice, in passing sentence. Exodus 23:1. 9. Calmet.—That judge who passes sentence according to truth, executes his office unjustly if he be actuated by the love of a temporal reward. Saint Gregory Mor. 9.

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