Appointment of Tribal Leaders

“At that time I said to you, ‘I am not able alone to bear you;

How can I bear alone the weight and burden of you and your strife?

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no foreign god with him.

So Israel dwelt in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and wine; yea, his heavens drop down dew.