Deuteronomy 1:13

Take ye wise men, and vnderstanding, and knowen among your tribes, and I will make them rulers ouer you.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

'Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.'
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
- American Standard Version (1901)

Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
- Basic English Bible

Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders."
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.
- Darby Bible

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.
- Douay-Rheims Bible

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

Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for Deuteronomy 1:13

1:12 Your burden - The trouble of ruling and managing so perverse a people. Your strife - Your contentions among yourselves, for the determnination whereof the elders were appointed.

1:15 Officers - Inferior officers, that were to attend upon the superior magistrates, and to execute their decrees.