Deuteronomy 1:13 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹³ Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Choose wise, understanding, experienced, and respected men according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

Common English Bible

¹³ Now, for each of your tribes, choose wise, discerning, and well-regarded individuals. I will appoint them as your leaders.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Offer, from among you, wise and experienced men, those whose conversation has been proven within your tribes, so that I may appoint them as your rulers.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Deuteronomy 1:13 Cross References

Genesis 41:33

Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Deuteronomy 1:12

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

Deuteronomy 1:14

And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.