^{9 Ref} I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

^{10 Ref} Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

^{11 Ref} Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

^{12 Ref} How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

^{13 Ref} Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

¹⁴ You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do.