Deuteronomy 1:13-15

New International Version - UK

¹³ Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you.’

¹⁴ You answered me, ‘What you propose to do is good.’

¹⁵ So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you – as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials.