¹⁴ “And you answered me, and you said, ‘The thing you have said to do is good.’ ¹⁵ And so I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and then I appointed them as leaders over you as commanders of groups of thousands and commanders of groups of hundreds and commanders of groups of fifties and commanders of groups of tens as officials for your tribes. ¹⁶ And at that time I instructed your judges, saying, ‘hear out your fellow men,^[a] and then judge fairly^[b] between a man and between his brother and between his opponent who is a resident alien.^[c]