7 ‘Turn and set out on your way, and go into the mountains of the Amorites, and to all the neighbouring places in the desert plain, in the mountains and in the low country, and in the Negeḇ and on the seacoast, to the land of the Kena‛anites and to Leḇanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
8 ‘See, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ, to give to them and their seed after them.’
9 “And I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am unable to bear you by myself.
10 ‘יהוה your Elohim has increased you, and see, you are today as numerous as the stars of the heavens.
11 ‘יהוה Elohim of your fathers is going to add to you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you as He has spoken to you!
12 ‘How do I bear your pressure and your burden and your strife, by myself?
13 ‘Choose men, wise and understanding, and known to your tribes, and let me appoint them as your heads.’