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Exodus 18:21

Exodus 18:21

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rulers of thousands: Whatever matter the decarch:, or ruler over ten, could not decide, went to the pentecontarch:, or ruler of fifty, and thence by degrees to the hecatontarch:, or ruler over a hundred, to the chiliarch:, or ruler over a thousand, to Moses, and at length to God himself. Each magistrate had the care or inspection of only ten men; the decarch: superintended ten private characters; the hecatontarch: ten decarchs:; and the chiliarch:, ten hecatontarchs:. ; ; ;

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