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Deuteronomy 1:15 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. "
Deuteronomy 1:15
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Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear
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Deuteronomy 1:1
"These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab."
Deuteronomy 1:2
"(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)"
Deuteronomy 1:3
"And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment"
Deuteronomy 1:4
"After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:"
Deuteronomy 1:5
"On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,"
Deuteronomy 1:6
"The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:"
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