Deuteronomy 1:14
New International Version
You answered me, “What you propose to do is good.”

New Living Translation
“Then you responded, ‘Your plan is a good one.’

English Standard Version
And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’

Berean Standard Bible
And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”

King James Bible
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

New King James Version
And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have told us to do is good.’

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

NASB 1995
“You answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have said to do is good.’

NASB 1977
“And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have said to do is good.’

Legacy Standard Bible
Then you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have said to do is good.’

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

Christian Standard Bible
“You replied to me, ‘What you propose to do is good.’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You replied to me, ‘What you propose to do is good.’”

American Standard Version
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you answered and you said to me: ‘The word that you said to do is good.’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye answered me and said, The thing which thou hast told us is good to do.

Contemporary English Version
You answered, "That's a good idea!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then you answered me: The thing is good which thou meanest to do.

English Revised Version
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You agreed that this was a good idea.

Good News Translation
And you agreed that this was a good thing to do.

International Standard Version
You answered by saying that this plan is a good thing.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.'

Literal Standard Version
and you answer me and say, The thing which you have spoken [is] good to do.

Majority Standard Bible
And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”

New American Bible
You answered me, “What you have proposed is good.”

NET Bible
You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

New Revised Standard Version
You answered me, “The plan you have proposed is a good one.”

New Heart English Bible
You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good to do."

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

World English Bible
You answered me, and said, “The thing which you have spoken is good to do.”

Young's Literal Translation
and ye answer me and say, Good is the thing which thou hast spoken -- to do.

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Context
Moses Appoints Leaders
13Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.” 14And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.” 15So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:13
Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders."

Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you--as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.


Treasury of Scripture

And you answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do.

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Deuteronomy 1
1. Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year
6. briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb
14. of giving them officers
19. of sending the spies to search the land
34. of his anger for their incredulity
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Verses 14, 15. - The people approved of the proposal, and acted upon it; and Moses accordingly appointed the persons selected to be chiefs over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and ever tens (Exodus 18:21); he appointed men also to be officers, that is, persons who should preserve order in the tribes, keeping the registers, acting as scribes, to prescribe and to take account of work, and perhaps also attending to fiscal arrangements (שֹׁטְרִים, shoterim, a word of general application; cf. Exodus 5:6, 10, 14; Joshua 3:2; 2 Chronicles 26:11, etc. LXX. γραμματεῖς and γραμματο εισαγωγεῖς). In Exodus, Moses is said to have chosen these functionaries (Exodus 18:25); but what many do under the direction of one may be said to be done by him.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And you answered
וַֽתַּעֲנ֖וּ (wat·ta·‘ă·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

me
אֹתִ֑י (’ō·ṯî)
Direct object marker | first person common singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

and said,
וַתֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (wat·tō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“What
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

you propose
דִּבַּ֖רְתָּ (dib·bar·tā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to do
לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6213: To do, make

is good.”
טֽוֹב־ (ṭō·wḇ-)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good


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