Deuteronomy 1:12-18

12How can I alone endure the burden and weight of you and your strife? 131Obtain for yourselves men who are wise, discerning, and informed from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.’ 14And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have said to do is good.’ 15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and informed men, and 2appointed them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, 3hundreds, 4fifties, and 5tens, and officers for your tribes.

16“Then I ordered your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen and 6judge righteously between a person and his fellow countryman, or the stranger who is with him. 177You are not to 8show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You are 9not to be afraid of any person, for the judgment is God’s. 10The case that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’ 18At that time 11I commanded you all the things that you were to do.