Deuteronomy 1:9-11

Contemporary English Version

Leaders Were Appointed

(Exodus 18.13-27)

Moses said:

⁹ Right after the Lord commanded us to leave Mount Sinai,^[a] I told you:

Israel, being your leader is too big a job for one person. ¹⁰ The Lord our God has blessed us, and so now there are as many of us as there are stars in the sky. ¹¹ God has even promised to bless us a thousand times more, and I pray that he will.