Deuteronomy 1:13
Good News Translation
Choose some wise, understanding, and experienced men from each tribe, and I will put them in charge of you.'

New Revised Standard Version
Choose for each of your tribes individuals who are wise, discerning, and reputable to be your leaders.”

Contemporary English Version
Each tribe must choose some experienced men who are known for their wisdom and understanding, and I will make those men the official leaders of their tribes.

New American Bible
Provide wise, discerning, and reputable persons for each of your tribes, that I may appoint them as your leaders.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.

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Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.

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Exodus 18:21 And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,

Numbers 11:16,17 And the Lord said to Moses: Gather unto me seventy men of the ancients of Israel, whom thou knowest to be ancients and masters of the people: and thou shalt bring them to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant, and shalt make them stand there with thee, . . .

Acts 1:21-23 Wherefore of these men who have companied with us, all the time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us, . . .

Acts 6:2-6 Then the twelve, calling together the multitude of the disciples, said: It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. . . .

Context
Moses Appoints Leaders
12I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences. 13Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.14Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.…
Cross References
Exodus 18:21
And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,

Deuteronomy 1:12
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.

Deuteronomy 1:14
Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.

Deuteronomy 1:12
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