17And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.
18Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.
19Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:
20Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do.
21But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
22And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.
23If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.
