Deuteronomy 1:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ Choose wise, understanding, and experienced men, according to your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.’

More versions

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.'

Deuteronomy 1:13 Cross References

Exodus 18:21

Moreover choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Deuteronomy 1:12

How can I bear alone the weight and burden of you and your strife?

Deuteronomy 1:14

And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’

Genesis 41:33

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