05:001:008 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
05:001:009 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to
bear you myself alone:
05:001:010 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are
this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
05:001:011 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so
many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
05:001:012 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden,
and your strife?
05:001:013 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your
tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
05:001:014 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken
is good for us to do.
05:001:015 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
05:001:016 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
05:001:017 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.