9 I said to you at that time, I am not able to bear you alone. 10 The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude. 11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you as He has promised you! 12 How can I bear alone the weariness and pressure and burden of you and your strife? 13 Choose wise, understanding, experienced, and respected men according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. 14 And you answered me, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise, experienced, and respected men, and made them heads over you, commanders of thousands, and hundreds, and fifties, and tens, and officers according to your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brethren and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger or sojourner who is with him. 17 You shall not be partial in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.