World English Bible
"Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.""
— Deuteronomy 1:13, World English Bible
“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. ”
“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.”
Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.
Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."
You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.