Exodus 18:21 BBE

¹⁹  Give 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:

²⁰  Teaching 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.

²¹  But 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;

²²  And 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.

²³  If 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.