Deuteronomy 1:13-17
13 aChoose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’ 14And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’ 15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, band set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes. 16And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and cjudge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him. 17 dYou shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for ethe judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall fbring to me, and I will hear it.’Acts 6:3
3 gTherefore, brothers, ▼▼Or brothers and sisters
pick out from among you seven men iof good repute, jfull of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.
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