Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
- BSB Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.”
- ESV Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’
- NKJV Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.’
- NASB Obtain for yourselves men who are wise, discerning, and informed from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.’
- NLT Choose some well-respected men from each tribe who are known for their wisdom and understanding, and I will appoint them as your leaders.’
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Exod 18:21Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which 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.
- Num 11:16–17Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
- Acts 1:21–23“Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
- Acts 6:2–6The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
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