Deuteronomy 1:13 - The Scriptures 2009

¹³ Choose men, wise and understanding, and known to your tribes, and let me appoint them as your heads.’

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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.'

Deuteronomy 1:13 Cross References

Genesis 41:33

“And now, let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Mitsrayim.

Exodus 18:21

But you yourself, seek out from all the people able men, who fear Elohim, men of truth, hating unfair gain. And place these over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Deuteronomy 1:12

How do I bear your pressure and your burden and your strife, by myself?

Deuteronomy 1:14

“And you answered me and said, ‘The word which you have spoken to us to do is good.’