World English Bible
"You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do.""
— Deuteronomy 1:14, World English Bible
“And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.”
“And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. ”
“You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.”
“Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.”
“And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.”
“And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.”
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.
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.