10. 'I alone am not able to sustain you. For the Lord, your God, has multiplied you, and you are today like the stars of heaven, very many.
11. May the Lord, the God of your fathers, add to this number many thousands more, and may he bless you, just as he has said.
12. Alone, I do not have the strength to endure your arbitrations and judgments and disputes.
13. Offer, from among you, wise and experienced men, those whose conversation has been proven within your tribes, so that I may appoint them as your rulers.'
14. Then you responded to me: 'What you intend to do is a good thing.'