Deuteronomy 1:14
 Deuteronomy 1:14 
New International Version (©2011)
You answered me, "What you propose to do is good."

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Then you responded, 'Your plan is a good one.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You answered me and said, 'The thing which you have said to do is good.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You replied to me, 'What you propose to do is good.'"

International Standard Version (©2012)
You answered by saying that this plan is a good thing.

NET Bible (©2006)
You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You agreed that this was a good idea.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And you answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do.

American King James Version
And you answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do.

American Standard Version
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.

Darby Bible Translation
And ye answered me, and said, The thing that thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

English Revised Version
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

World English Bible
You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."

Young's Literal Translation
and ye answer me and say, Good is the thing which thou hast spoken -- to do.

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

Verses 14, 15. - The people approved of the proposal, and acted upon it; and Moses accordingly appointed the persons selected to be chiefs over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and ever tens (Exodus 18:21); he appointed men also to be officers, that is, persons who should preserve order in the tribes, keeping the registers, acting as scribes, to prescribe and to take account of work, and perhaps also attending to fiscal arrangements (שֹׁטְרִים, shoterim, a word of general application; cf. Exodus 5:6, 10, 14; Joshua 3:2; 2 Chronicles 26:11, etc. LXX. γραμματεῖς and γραμματο εισαγωγεῖς). In Exodus, Moses is said to have chosen these functionaries (Exodus 18:25); but what many do under the direction of one may be said to be done by him.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And ye answered me and said,.... As the speech of Moses to the people is not expressed before, so neither this answer of theirs to him:

the thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do; to look out for and present persons to him as before described; this they saw was for their own good and profit, as well as for the ease of Moses, and therefore readily agreed to it.


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Moses Appoints Leaders
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. 15So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. …

Deuteronomy 1:13 Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you."
Deuteronomy 1:15 So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you--as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials.