Behold, I have set the land before you: go in therefore and
possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers Abraham,
Isaac and Iacob, to give unto them and their seed after them. And
I said unto you the same season: I am not able to bear you myself
alone. For the LORD your God hath multiplied you: so that ye are
this day as the stars of heaven in number (the LORD God of your
fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and
bless you as he hath promised you) how (said I) can I myself
alone, bear the cumbrance, charge and strife that is among you:
bring therefore men of wisdom and of understanding and expert,
known among your tribes, that I may make them rulers over you. And
ye answered me and said: that which thou hast spoken is good to be
done. And then I took the heads of your tribes, men of wisdom and
that were expert, and made them rulers over you: captains over
thousands and over hundreds, over fifty and over ten, and officers
among your tribes. And I charged your judges the same time saying:
hear your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his
brother and the stranger that is with him. See that ye know no man
in judgement: but hear the small as well as the great and be
afraid of no man, for the law is God's.
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