¹ It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

¹⁸ Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

¹⁹ You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

²¹ I charge you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

¹⁰ Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, You who walk by the way.

²² Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule you over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.

²³ Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: Yahweh shall rule over you.

⁴ He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

¹⁴ He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

⁵ He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

⁶ and said to the judges, Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

² that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.