Deuteronomy 1:13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Deuteronomy 1:13 in other translations
| BSB | Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.” |
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| WEB | Take wise men of understanding who are respected among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.” |
| ASV | Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. |
| YLT | Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads; |
| DARBY | Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs. |
| BBE | Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. |
| Webster | Take ye wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. |
What does Deuteronomy 1:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 1:9-18
9-18. I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone--a little before their arrival in Horeb. Moses addresses that new generation as the representatives of their fathers, in whose sight and hearing all the transactions he recounts took place. A reference is here made to the suggestion of Jethro (Ex 18:18). In noticing his practical adoption of a plan by which the administration of…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:9-18
Moses reminds the people of the happy constitution of their government, which might make them all safe and easy, if it was not their own fault. He owns the fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, and prays for the further accomplishment of it. We are not straitened in the power and goodness of God; why should we be straitened in our own faith and hope? Good laws were given to the Israelites, and good men were to see…
Deuteronomy 1:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 1:13
- Exodus 18:21
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
- Acts 1:21-23
Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection. And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
- Numbers 11:16-17
And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
- Acts 6:2-6
Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: …
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ex 18:21; Nu 11:16,17; Ac 1:21-23; 6:2-6
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
- Deuteronomy 1:13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
- Deuteronomy 1:14
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
Deuteronomy 1:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Dad me de entre vosotros, de vuestras tribus, varones sabios y entendidos y expertos, para que yo los ponga por vuestros jefes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Donnez-vous des hommes sages, et intelligents, et connus, selon vos tribus, et je les établirai chefs sur vous. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Nehmet euch weise und verständige und bekannte Männer, nach euren Stämmen, daß ich sie zu Häuptern über euch setze. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Date ex vobis viros sapientes et gnaros, et quorum conversatio sit probata in tribubus vestris, ut ponam eos vobis principes. |