Bible Verses

They will administer justice at all times, bringing to your attention only those cases of major importance while they deal with all those of lesser importance. That will ease your burden since they will be sharing it with you.

But choose among the people, capable, God-fearing men, men of truth who hate a bribe, and appoint them as leaders for groups of a thousand, a hundred, fifty, and ten.

You will teach them the statutes and laws, how they must live, and what they must do.

Now listen to the advice I will give you, and may God be with you. You will be the people’s representative before God and bring their cases to him.

You and your people will wear yourselves out, for the work is too heavy, and you cannot do it alone.

Jethro replied: “What you are doing is not good.

When there is a dispute, they bring it to me to decide between the two parties, and I teach them God’s decrees and laws.”

Moses answered: “The people come to me to know God’s will.

His father-in-law, seeing Moses’s work for the people, said to him: “What are you doing for the people? Why do you alone sit and judge while all the people stand around you from morning till night?”

Distribution of Responsibilities The next day, Moses took his seat to administer justice for the people who stood around him from morning till night.