“So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and respected men, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds, captains of fifties, captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.”

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.