8. see, I have set before you the land; go in and possess the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them, and to their seed after them.
9. `And I speak unto you at that time, saying, I am not able by myself to bear you;
10. Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye [are] to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;
11. Jehovah, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye [are], a thousand times, and doth bless you as He hath spoken to you.
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.
15. `And I take the heads of your tribes, men, wise and known, and I appoint them heads over you, princes of thousands, and princes of hundreds, and princes of fifties, and princes of tens, and authorities, for your tribes.
16. And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren--then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;
17. ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;