Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Holman Bible
Appoint for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will make them your leaders.
International Standard Version
Choose for yourselves wise and discerning men, known to your tribes, and appoint them as your leaders.
A Conservative Version
Take for you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
American Standard Version
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
Amplified
Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, experienced, and respected men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as heads (leaders) over you.’
Bible in Basic English
Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Darby Translation
Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.
Julia Smith Translation
Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads.
King James 2000
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Choose for yourselves {wise and discerning and knowledgeable men} for [each of] your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.'
Modern King James verseion
Give wise and understanding men, and those known to your tribes, and I will appoint them rulers over you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Bring therefore men of wisdom and of understanding and expert, known among your tribes, that I may make them rulers over you.'
NET Bible
Select wise and practical men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders."
New Heart English Bible
Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."
The Emphasized Bible
Set forth for you - men wise and discerning, and known to your tribes, - that I may appoint them to be heads over you.
Webster
Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
World English Bible
Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."
Themes
journey of israel through the Desert » To mount sinai » Judges appointed
Government » Mosaic » Administrative and judicial system
Israel » Organization » Government » Jethro
Magistrates » Wisdom and integrity essential to
moses » Institutes a system of government
Officer » Civil » Chosen by the people
Rulers' » Wisdom and integrity essential to
The Nation » Of israel and judah rulers » Wisdom and integrity essential to
Topics
Interlinear
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References
American
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 1:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Historical Prologue
12 'How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife? 13 Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads; 14 and ye answer me and say, Good is the thing which thou hast spoken -- to do.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 18:21
And thou -- thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,
Numbers 11:16-17
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou hast known that they are elders of the people, and its authorities; and thou hast taken them unto the tent of meeting, and they have stationed themselves there with thee,
Acts 1:21-23
'It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,
Acts 6:2-6
and the twelve, having called near the multitude of the disciples, said, 'It is not pleasing that we, having left the word of God, do minister at tables;