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Deuteronomy 1:13

WisdomAuthority and leadership

11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

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

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

15 So 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.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.”
KJV
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
WEB
Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
ASV
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
DARBY
Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.
BLB
Choose for yourselves men, wise and understanding and knowledgeable, from among your⁺ tribes, and I will appoint them as your⁺ heads.”
ÅB
Kom med noen vise og forstandige og prøvede menn fra hver av deres stammer! Så vil jeg sette dem til høvdinger over dere.
OTB
Velg kloke, forstandige og respekterte menn fra hver av deres stammer, og jeg vil utnevne dem til deres ledere.'
B1930
Kom med nogen vise og forstandige og prøvede menn fra hver av eders stammer! Så vil jeg sette dem til høvdinger over eder.

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Cross references

  • Exodus 18:21

    Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

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  • Acts 1:21–23

    Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

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  • Numbers 11:16–17

    And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

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  • Acts 6:2–6

    Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

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