Deuteronomy 1:14
12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
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.
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
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.