Exodus 18:19-26 »Listen to the advice I give you. May God be with you! You must be the people’s representative to God and bring their disagreements to him.

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ »Listen to the advice I give you. May God be with you! You must be the people’s representative to God and bring their disagreements to him. ²⁰ »You must instruct them in the laws and the teachings. Show them how to live and tell them what to do. ²¹ »You should choose capable men from all the people. Find men who respect God. These must be men you can trust who hate corruption. Put them in charge of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. ²² »They must be the ones who usually settle disagreements among the people. They should bring all-important cases to you. But they should settle all minor cases themselves. Make it easier for yourself by letting them help you. ²³ »If you do this, as God commands, you will not wear yourself out. All these people can go home with their disputes settled.« ²⁴ Moses took Jethro’s advice ²⁵ and chose capable men from among all the Israelites. He appointed them as leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. ²⁶ They judged the people on a permanent basis. The difficult cases were taken to Moses but they decided the smaller disputes themselves.