Deuteronomy 1:9-18 - Leaders For The Tribes
9 And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you by myself. 10 Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and, behold, today you are as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 May Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you as He has said to you! 12 How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden and your strife? 13 Give wise and understanding men, and those known to your tribes, and I will appoint them rulers over you.
14 And you answered me and said, The thing which you have spoken is good to do.
15 And I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise and noted men, 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. 16 And I commanded your judges at that time saying, Hear the causes between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger with him. 17 You shall not respect persons in judgment. You shall hear the small as well as the great. You 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 to me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.