7. turn and take your journey and go to the mount of the Amorite and unto all the places nearby, in the plain, in the hills, and in the valleys and to the Negev and by the sea side to the land of the Canaanite and unto Lebanon unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
8. Behold, I have given the land in your presence; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give unto them and to their seed after them.
9. And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone;
10. the Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
11. Let the Lord God of your fathers add upon you a thousand times so many more as ye are and bless you, as he has promised!
12. How can I myself alone bear your troubles and your burdens and your strife?
13. Give me from among you, of your tribes, wise and understanding and expert men, and I will make them the head over you.
14. And ye answered me and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
15. So I took the principals of your tribes, wise men and experts, and made them princes over you, princes over thousands and princes over hundreds and princes over fifties and princes over tens and officers among your tribes.
16. And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him.
17. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s; and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
18. And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
19. And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
20. Then I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives unto us.
21. Behold, the Lord thy God has given the land before thee; go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers has said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.