13. Provide wise, discerning, and reputable persons for each of your tribes, that I may appoint them as your leaders.”
14. You answered me, “What you have proposed is good.”
15. So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and reputable, and set them as leaders over you, commanders over thousands, over hundreds, over fifties and over tens, and other tribal officers.
16. I charged your judges at that time, “Listen to complaints among your relatives, and administer true justice to both parties even if one of them is a resident alien.