Excerpt from The Pentateuch and the Haftaroth: Newly Translated Under the Supervision of the Rev. The Chief Rabbi of the United Congregations of the British Empire, The Fifth Book of MosesAnd, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. May the Eternal God of your fathers add to If you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath spoken concerning you! How can I myself12 alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? Get you wise 'men, and understanding, and known among13 your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. And ye'i4 answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. So I took the heads of your tribes, 15 wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and bailiffs among your tribes. And I commanded your judges at thatlti time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and between the stranger with him. Ye shall not respect persons 17 in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the great, ye shall not stand in awe of the face of man, for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it. And I commanded you18 at that time all the things which ye should do. And when_1g we journeyed from Horeb, we went through all that great and fearful wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Eternal our God commanded us, and we came to Kadesh-barnea. And I said to you, 20 Ye are come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the Eternal our God doth give to us. Behold, the Eternalzt thy God -hath set-the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Eternal God of thy fathers hath said to thee fear not, neither be dismayed. And ye came near to me 22 all of ye, and said, We will send men before us, and they.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.