Deuteronomy 1:14

¹²How shall I alone be able to bear your labor, and your burden, and your gainsayings?

¹³Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.

— Deuteronomy 1:14 —

¹⁵So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and officers to your judges.

¹⁶And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear causes between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.