King James Version
"Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you."
— Deuteronomy 1:13, King James Version
“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.”
The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
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.