Exodus 18:14
18:14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this
that you are doing for the people?
Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”
Exodus 18:16
18:16 When they have a dispute,
it comes to me and I decide
between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”
Exodus 18:26
18:26 They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring
to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.
Exodus 18:1
The Advice of Jethro
18:1 Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus 3:16
3:16 “Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, appeared to me – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – saying, “I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,