^{9 Ref} `And I speak unto you at that time, saying, I am not able by myself to bear you;

^{10 Ref} Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye `are' to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;

^{11 Ref} Jehovah, 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 Ref} `How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?

^{13 Ref} Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;

¹⁴ and ye answer me and say, Good `is' the thing which thou hast spoken -- to do.

^{15 Ref} `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.

^{16 Ref} And 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;

^{17 Ref} ye 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;