Mosiah 29: 11

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THE BOOK OF MOSIAH

CHAPTER 29

11 Therefore I will be your king the remainder of my days; nevertheless, let ^aus appoint ^bjudges, to judge this people according to our law; and we will newly arrange the affairs of this people, for we will appoint wise men to be judges, that will judge this people according to the commandments of God.

Footnotes

11a

Mosiah 29: 25 (25-27, 41)

25 Therefore, choose you by the ^avoice of this people, judges, that ye may be ^bjudged according to the ^claws which have been given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which were given them by the hand of the Lord.

Ex. 18: 13.

13 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to ^ajudge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.

Deut. 16: 18.

18 ¶ ^aJudges and ^bofficers 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.

Ezra 7: 25.

25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and ^ajudges, which may judge all the people that are ^bbeyond the river, all such as know the ^claws of thy God; and ^dteach ye them that know them not.

Alma 46: 4.

4 And Amalickiah was desirous to be a ^aking; and those people who were wroth were also desirous that he should be their king; and they were the greater part of them the lower ^bjudges of the land, and they were seeking for power.

D&C 107: 74 (74, 78)

74 Thus shall he be a ^ajudge, even a common judge among the inhabitants of Zion, or in a stake of Zion, or in any branch of the church where he shall be ^bset apart unto this ministry, until the borders of Zion are enlarged and it becomes necessary to have other bishops or judges in Zion or elsewhere.