19. Now listen to my voice—I will give you advice, and may God be with you! You, represent the people before God, and bring their cases to God.
20. Enlighten them as to the statutes and the laws, and show them the way by which they must walk and the work they must do.
21. But you should seek out capable men out of all the people—men who fear God, men of truth, who hate bribery. Appoint them to be rulers over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
22. Let them judge the people all the time. Then let every major case be brought to you, but every minor case they can judge for themselves. Make it easier for yourself, as they bear the burden with you.
23. If you do this thing as God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will go to their places in shalom.”
24. So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
25. Moses chose capable men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
26. They judged the people all the time. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
27. Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went on his way to his own land.