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Devarim 1:11-16 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

11. (Hashem Elohei Avoteichem increase you a thousand times over and bless you, as He hath promised you!)

12. How can I myself alone bear your problems, and your massa and your strife?

13. Take you anashim chachamim, men of wisdom and understanding, who are known among your tribes, and I will set them over you.

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

15. So I took the leaders of your tribes, anashim chachamim, men of understanding, and made them heads over you, over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens, shoterim among your tribes.

16. And I charged your shofetim at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the ger that is with him.

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