9. “And I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am unable to bear you by myself.
10. ‘יהוה your Elohim has increased you, and see, you are today as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
11. ‘יהוה Elohim of your fathers is going to add to you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you as He has spoken to you!
12. ‘How do I bear your pressure and your burden and your strife, by myself?
13. ‘Choose men, wise and understanding, and known to your tribes, and let me appoint them as your heads.’
14. “And you answered me and said, ‘The word which you have spoken to us to do is good.’
15. “And I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, and leaders of hundreds, and leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.
16. “And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘When hearing between your brothers, judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.
17. ‘Do not show partiality in right-ruling, hear the small as well as the great. Do not be afraid of anyone’s face, for the right-ruling belongs to Elohim. And the case which is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I shall hear it.’
18. “And I commanded you at that time all the words which you should do.
19. “Then we set out from Ḥorĕḇ, and went through all that great and awesome wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as יהוה our Elohim had commanded us. And we came to Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa.