Deuteronomy 1:13-17 Appoint for yourselves men of wisdom, knowledge and understanding, for your several tribes, and I will make them leaders over you.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ Appoint for yourselves men of wisdom, knowledge and understanding, for your several tribes, and I will make them leaders over you. ¹⁴ And you answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast proposed to do is good. ¹⁵ So I took from among you men of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and appointed them to be leaders over you; captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens; and promulgators of the law for your judges. ¹⁶ And I gave a charge to your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not respect a person in judgment. Against the low and the high thou shalt pass sentence, and not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. And if the matter be too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.