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Deuteronomy 1:13
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11 aMay the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you bas He has promised you!  
12 aHow can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?  
13 Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them1 heads over you.’  
14 And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have told us to do is good.’
15 So I took athe heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and1 made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.  
16 “Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and ajudge righteously between a man and his bbrother or the stranger who is with him.  
17 aYou shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for bthe judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, cbring to me, and I will hear it.’  
18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
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Deuteronomy 1:9-15

This appointment of the "captains" (compare Exodus 18:21 ff) must not be confounded with that of the elders in Numbers 11:16 ff. The former would number 78,600; the latter were 70 only.

A comparison between this passage and that in Exodus makes it obvious that Moses is only touching on certain parts of the whole history, without regard to order of time, but with a special purpose. This important arrangement for the good government of the people took place before they left Horeb to march direct to the promised land. This fact sets more clearly before us the perverseness and ingratitude of the people, to which the orator next passes; and shows, what he was anxious to impress, that the fault of the 40 years' delay rested only with themselves!




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