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Exodus 18
²¹ Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.
²² Let them judge the people at all times; and let it be that every major dispute they will bring to you, but every minor dispute they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
²³ If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace."
²⁴ So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
²⁵ Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.
²⁶ They judged the people at all times; the difficult dispute they would bring to Moses, but every minor dispute they themselves would judge.
²⁷ Then Moses bade his father-in-law farewell, and he went his way into his own land.
Exodus 19
¹ In the third month after the sons of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
² When they set out from Rephidim, they came to the wilderness of Sinai and camped in the wilderness; and there Israel camped in front of the mountain.
³ Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel:
⁴ ’You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself.