Catholic Public Domain Version
"Offer, from among you, wise and experienced men, those whose conversation has been proven within your tribes, so that I may appoint them as your rulers.’ "
— Deuteronomy 1:13, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.”
“Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. ”
“Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."”
“Select wise and practical men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders.””
“Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.”
“Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.”
“Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.”
‘I alone am not able to sustain you. For the Lord, your God, has multiplied you, and you are today like the stars of heaven, very many.
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, add to this number many thousands more, and may he bless you, just as he has said.
Alone, I do not have the strength to endure your arbitrations and judgments and disputes.
Offer, from among you, wise and experienced men, those whose conversation has been proven within your tribes, so that I may appoint them as your rulers.’
Then you responded to me: ‘What you intend to do is a good thing.’
And so, I took from your tribes men, wise and noble, and I appointed them as rulers, as tribunes and centurions, and as leaders over fifty and over ten, who would teach you each thing.
And I instructed them, saying: ‘Listen to them, and judge what is just, whether he is one of your citizens or a sojourner.