Deuteronomy 1:14
12 But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
13 Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.”
And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”
15 So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.
16 At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”
- KJV
- And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
- WEB
- You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”
- ASV
- And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good [for us] to do.
- DARBY
- And ye answered me, and said, The thing that thou hast spoken is good [for us] to do.
- BLB
- And you⁺ answered me and said, “Good [is] the thing that you have told [us] to do.”
- ÅB
- Da svarte dere meg: Det er både rett og godt det du sier.
- OTB
- Og dere svarte meg: 'Det du foreslår å gjøre er godt.'
- B1930
- Da svarte I mig: Det er både rett og godt det du sier.