Scriptures

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Exodus 18
²¹ Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
²² And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they themselves shall judge. So it will be easier for you, for 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 this people will also go to their place in peace."
²⁴ So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
²⁵ And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people: rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
²⁶ So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.
²⁷ Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land.
Exodus 19
¹ In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
² For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the mountain.
³ And 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 children of Israel:
⁴ ’You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.