Deuteronomy 1:14-16

Tree of Life Version

¹⁴ “You answered me and said: ‘The thing you have said to do is good.’ ¹⁵ So I took the heads of your tribes, men who were wise and well known, and appointed them as heads over you—leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officials for your tribes.

¹⁶ “I commanded your judges at that time saying: ‘Hear cases between your brothers, and judge fairly^[a] between a man and his brother or the outsider with him.