11. May the Lord, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, just as He has promised you!
12. How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
13. Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.'
14. You answered me and said, 'The thing which you have said to do is good.'
15. So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and appointed them heads over you, leaders of thousands and of hundreds, of fifties and of tens, and officers for your tribes.
16. "Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.