Deuteronomy 1:8-18

8 Beholde, I haue set the londe before you: goo in therfore and possesse the londe which the Lord sware vnto youre fathers Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, to geue vnto them and their seed after them.
9 And I sayde vnto yov the same season: I am not able to bere you myselfe alone.
10 For the Lorde youre God hath multiplyed you: so that ye are this daye as the starres of heauen in numbre
11 (the Lorde god of youre fathers make you a thousande tymes so many moo as ye are, and blesse you as he hath promysed you)
12 how (sayde I) can I myselfe alone, beare the combraunce, charge and stryffe that is amonge you:
13 brynge therfore men of wisdome and of vnderstondinge and expert knowne amonge youre trybes, that I maye make them ruelars ouer you.
14 And ye answered me and sayed: that which thou hast spoken is good to be done.
15 And then I toke the heedes of youre trybes, men of wysdome and that were expert, and made them ruelers ouer you: captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer hundredes ouer fyftye and ouer ten, and officers amonge youre trybes.
16 And I charged youre Iudges the same tyme sayenge: heare youre brethern and iudge righteously betwene euery man and his brother and the straunges that is with him.
17 Se that ye knowe no man in Iudgement: but heare the small as well as the greate and be afrayed of no man, for the lawe is Gods. And the cause that is to harde for you, brynge vnto me and I will heare it.
18 And I commaunded you the same season, all the thinges which ye shulde doo.
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