13. 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.
14. Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.
15. And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and appointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over fifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.
16. And I commanded them, saying: Hear them, and judge that which is just: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger.
17. There shall be no difference of persons, you shall hear the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect any man's person, because it is the judgment of God. And if any thing seem hard to you, refer it to me, and I will hear it.
18. And I commanded you all things that you were to do.
19. And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite, as the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into Cadesbarne,
20. I said to you: You are come to the mountain of the Amorrhite, which the Lord our God will give to us.
21. See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, nor be any way discouraged.
22. And you came all to me, and said: Let us send men who may view the land, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we shall go.
23. And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe:
24. Who, when they had set forward and had gone up to the mountains, came as far as the valley of the cluster: and having viewed the land,