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13 Choose for yourselves wise men, who have understanding and are renowned among your tribes, and I will make them chiefs over you. 14 And you answered and said to me, The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do. 15 So I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise men and renowned, and made them chieftains over you, commanders over thousands and captains over hundreds and officers over fifty and officers over ten and scribes for your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 You shall not be partial to persons in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great; 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, bring it to me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do. Deuteronomy 1:13-18, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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