How can I alone bear your burden? The trouble of ruling and managing so perverse a people. Your strife Your contentions among yourselves, for the determination whereof the elders were appointed. Take ye wise men and understanding Persons of knowledge, wisdom, and experience. Known among your tribes Hebrew, to your tribes; men had in reputation for ability and integrity; for to such they would more readily submit.
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Deuteronomy 1:12-13
12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13 Taked you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.