Deuteronomy 1:13
What does Deuteronomy 1:13 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 1:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Let 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.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Acts 1:21
Of the men therefore that have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,
- Acts 6:2
And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables.
- Exodus 18:21
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
- Numbers 11:16
And Jehovah 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 tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.
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