¹⁹“Now listen to my voice: I will give you counsel, and God be with you. ¹You be the people’s representative before God, and you ^abring the matters to God;

²⁰^athen warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make known to them ^bthe way in which they shall go and the work they shall do.

²¹“But you shall ¹select ^aexcellent men out of all the people, ^bthose who fear God, men of truth, those who ^chate greedy gain; and you shall place these men over them as leaders of thousands, ²of hundreds, ³of fifties, and ⁴of tens.

²²“And they will judge the people at all times. And it will be ^athat every major matter they will bring to you, but every minor matter they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you, and ^bthey will bear the burden with you.

²³“If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to ¹endure, and all ²these people also will go to ³their place in peace.”

²⁴So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

²⁵And Moses chose ^aexcellent men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, leaders of thousands, ¹of hundreds, ²of fifties, and ³of tens.

²⁶And they judged the people at all times; ^athe difficult matter they would bring to Moses, but every minor matter they themselves would judge.

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Footnotes

1Lit You be for the people in front of God
1Lit see
2Lit leaders of
3Lit leaders of
4Lit leaders of
1Lit stand
2Lit this
3Lit his
1Lit leaders of
2Lit leaders of
3Lit leaders of

Cross references

a Num 27:5
a Deut 1:18; 4:1, 5; 5:1
b Ps 143:8
a Ex 18:25; Deut 1:13, 15; 2 Chr 19:5–10; Ps 15:1–5; Acts 6:3
b Gen 42:18; 2 Sam 23:3
c Deut 16:19
a Deut 1:17, 18
b Num 11:17
a Ex 18:21; Deut 1:15
a Ex 18:22