⁹‘And I speak unto you at that time, saying, I am not able by myself to bear you; ¹⁰Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye are to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude; ¹¹Jehovah, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye are, a thousand times, and doth bless you as He hath spoken to you.

¹²‘How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife? ¹³Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads; ¹⁴and ye answer me and say, Good is the thing which thou hast spoken—to do.

¹⁵‘And I take the heads of your tribes, men, wise and known, and I appoint them heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities, for your tribes. ¹⁶And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren—then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner; ¹⁷ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God’s, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it; ¹⁸and I command you, at that time, all the things which ye do.

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