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.
And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice: and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.
Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.
Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt,