Deuteronomy 1:13-15
1:13 Select wise and practical 1 men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders.”
1:14 You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.
1:15 So I chose 2 as your tribal leaders wise and well-known men, placing them over you as administrators of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and also as other tribal officials.
1 tn The Hebrew verb נְבֹנִים (nÿvonim, from בִּין [bin]) is a Niphal referring to skill or intelligence (see T. Fretheim, NIDOTTE 1:652-53).
2 tn Or “selected”; Heb “took.”