Deuteronomy 1:13-16

Revised Geneva Translation

¹³ ‘Bring men of wisdom and of understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

¹⁴ ‘Then you answered me and said, “The thing that you have commanded to do is good.”

¹⁵ “So I took the chief of your tribes, wise and known men, and made them rulers over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifty, and captains over ten, and officers among your tribes.

¹⁶ “And I charged your Judges at that same time, saying, ‘Hear the controversies between your brothers and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.