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And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you by myself.

Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and, behold, today you are as the stars of heaven for multitude.

May Jehovah the God of your fathers add to you a thousand times more than you are , and bless you as He has spoken to you!

How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden, and your strife?

Give wise and understanding men, and those known to your tribes, and I will appoint them rulers over you.

And you answered me and said, The thing which you have spoken is good to do.

And I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise and noted men, and I gave them to be rulers over you, commanders over thousands, and commanders over hundreds and commanders over fifties, and commanders over tens, and officers, for your tribes.

And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear between your brothers; and judge with righteousness between a man and his brother, and his alien.

You shall not recognize persons in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid because of the face of a man, for the judgment is God's; and the thing too hard for you, you shall bring near to me, andI shall hear it.

And at that time I commanded you all the things which you were to do.