13Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you."
13Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you."
10 The Lord your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as many as the stars in the sky.
11 May the Lord , the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised!
12 But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself?
13 Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you."
14 You answered me, "What you propose to do is good."
15 So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you-as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials.
1:13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
1:13Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.
1:13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
1:13Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.
1:13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
1:13Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
1:13Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.|
1:13Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;
1:13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.