Deuteronomy 1:13-17 Furnish for yourselves wise and understanding men, and those known among your tribes, and I will place them as chiefs over you.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ Furnish for yourselves wise and understanding men, and those known among your tribes, and I will place them as chiefs over you. ¹⁴ And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good to do. ¹⁵ And I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise and known men, and I set them as heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and as officers for your tribes. ¹⁶ And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously, between a man and his brother, and between his stranger. ¹⁷ Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; the small as well as the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of any man; for the judgment belongeth to God: and the cause that is too hard for you shall ye bring unto me, and I will hear it.