Exodus 18:19 DBY

¹⁷  And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou art doing is not good.

¹⁸  Thou wilt be quite exhausted, both thou and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee: thou canst not perform it alone.

¹⁹  Hearken now to my voice: I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee. Be thou for the people with God, and bring the matters before God;

²⁰  and teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

²¹  But do thou provide among all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place [them] over them, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens,