Deuteronomy 1:12-16

How can I alone endure the burden and weight of you and your strife?

Obtain for yourselves men who are wise, discerning, and informed from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.’

And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have said to do is good.’

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and informed men, and appointed them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.

“Then I ordered your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen and judge righteously between a person and his fellow countryman, or the stranger who is with him.