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He gave the leading man this order: 'When my brother Esau meets you and asks, "Whose man are you? Where are you going? Whose are those animals that you are driving?" (Genesis 32, 18)
then his master will bring him before God and then, leading him to the door or the doorpost, his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and the slave will be permanently his. (Exodus 21, 6)
'Send out men, one from each tribe, to reconnoitre the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites. Each of them is to be a leading man of the tribe.' (Numbers 13, 2)
At Yahweh's order, Moses sent them from the desert of Paran. All of them were leading men of Israel. (Numbers 13, 3)
'I have been leading you for forty years in the desert, yet the clothes which you have been wearing have not worn out, nor have the sandals on your feet. (Deuteronomy 29, 4)
and with him ten leading men, one man from a leading family from each of the tribes of Israel, each of them being head of his family in the clans of Israel. (Joshua 22, 14)
'Please put this question to the leading men of Shechem: Which is better for you: to be ruled by seventy people -- all Jerubbaal's sons -- or to be ruled by one? Remember too that I am your own flesh and bone.' (Judges 9, 2)
His mother's brothers said all this on his behalf to all the leading men of Shechem, and their feelings swayed them to follow Abimelech, since they argued, 'He is our brother.' (Judges 9, 3)
All the leading men of Shechem and all Beth-Millo then met and proclaimed Abimelech king at the oak of the cultic stone at Shechem. (Judges 9, 6)
and you today having risen up against my father's family, murdered his sons -- seventy of them on one and the same stone -- and appointed Abimelech, his slave-girl's son, to rule the leading men of Shechem, because he is your brother!- (Judges 9, 18)
If not, may fire come out of Abimelech and devour the leading men of Shechem and Beth-Millo, and fire come out of the leading men of Shechem and Beth-Millo to devour Abimelech!' (Judges 9, 20)
On hearing this, all the leading men inside Migdal-Shechem took refuge in the crypt of the temple of El-Berith. (Judges 9, 46)