Deuteronomy 1:13-17

English Standard Version

^13 (A)Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’ ¹⁴ And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’ ¹⁵ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, ^(B)and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes. ¹⁶ And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and ^(C)judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him. ^17 (D)You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for ^(E)the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall ^(F)bring to me, and I will hear it.’