Deuteronomy 1:9-18

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁹ ¶ And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone;

¹⁰ the LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

¹¹ Let the LORD God of your fathers add upon you a thousand times so many more as ye are and bless you, as he has promised!

¹² How can I myself alone bear your troubles and your burdens and your strife?

¹³ Give me from among you, of your tribes, wise and understanding and expert men, and I will make them the head over you.

¹⁴ And ye answered me and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

¹⁵ So I took the principals of your tribes, wise men and experts, and made them princes over you, princes over thousands and princes over hundreds and princes over fifties and princes over tens and officers among your tribes.

¹⁶ And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him.

¹⁷ Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s; and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.