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Deuteronomy 1:13

Deuteronomy chapter 1 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

Context

v.12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

v.13This passage

v.14And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

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.