Deuteronomy 1:13-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹³ Let me have from among you wise and understanding men, and such whose conversation is approved among your tribes, that I may appoint them your rulers.

¹⁴ Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.

¹⁵ And I took out of your tribes men wise and honourable, and appointed them rulers, tribunes, and centurions, and officers over fifties, and over tens, who might teach you all things.