Deuteronomy 1:13
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New International Version (©2011)
Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Choose some well-respected men from each tribe who are known for their wisdom and understanding, and I will appoint them as your leaders.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Choose for yourselves wise and discerning men, known to your tribes, and appoint them as your leaders.

NET Bible (©2006)
Select wise and practical men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
From each of your tribes, choose some men who are wise, intelligent, and experienced, and I'll appoint them to be your leaders."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

American King James Version
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

American Standard Version
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Darby Bible Translation
Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.

English Revised Version
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

World English Bible
Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

Young's Literal Translation
Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:9-18 Moses reminds the people of the happy constitution of their government, which might make them all safe and easy, if it was not their own fault. He owns the fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, and prays for the further accomplishment of it. We are not straitened in the power and goodness of God; why should we be straitened in our own faith and hope? Good laws were given to the Israelites, and good men were to see to the execution of them, which showed God's goodness to them, and the care of Moses.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - Take you; literally, give to you or for you, i.e. yourselves. The selection was to be made by the people themselves. Jethro, in giving Moses the advice on which he thus acted, described the men who were to be selected as "such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness" (Exodus 18:21). Moses here describes them rather by qualities, indicating ability and fitness for such a post as that to which they were to be called; they were to be wise (which, indeed, may be regarded as comprehending all good moral qualities); understanding men, men of discernment and sagacity, as well as intelligence; and known among their tribes, men of good repute in the community ("quorum conversatio sit probata," Vulgate; comp. Acts 6:3; 1 Timothy 3:7). And I will make them rulers over you; literally, will set them for your heads, i.e. will appoint them to act as superintendents, managers, and judges over you.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes,.... Not only whose persons were well known, but their characters and qualifications, for their probity and integrity, for their wisdom and prudence in the management of affairs, for their skill and knowledge in things divine and human, civil and religious, and for their capacity in judging and determining matters in difference; see Exodus 18:21.

and I will make them rulers over you; the people were allowed to choose their own officers, whom they were to bring to Moses, and present before him, to be invested with their office. A like method was taken in the choice and constitution of deacons in the Christian church, when the secular affairs of it lay too heavy upon the apostles, Acts 6:3.

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Moses Appoints Leaders
…12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. 14And you answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. …

Exodus 18:21 But select capable men from all the people--men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain--and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
Deuteronomy 1:12 But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself?
Deuteronomy 1:14 You answered me, "What you propose to do is good."