Salmi 73:11 Cabala: Idra Zuta

Twenty-four courts of law derive from this forehead against those who act impudently, as written, “How does El know? And is there knowledge in the host high” (Tehillim 73:11). He asks, there are twenty courts of law: wherefore the additional four? He answers, the four correspond to the four forms of capital punishment by the terrestrial court that derives from the celestial one. Twenty celestial courts remain, which is the reason why celestial courts do not mete out punishment until a person reaches twenty years of age, corresponding to the twenty courts of law. We have learned in our concealed Mishnah that they correspond to the twenty-four books in the Bible.