13. On the next day, MOSES sat to judge the people, and the people stood around MOSES from the morning to the evening.

14. When MOSES' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"

15. MOSES said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

16. When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

17. MOSES' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.

18. You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

19. Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

20. You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

21. Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

22. Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

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

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

25. MOSES chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26. They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to MOSES, but every small matter they judged themselves.

16. The LORD said to MOSES, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

17. I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

18. "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of The LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.

19. You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,

20. but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'"

21. MOSES said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.'

22. Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"

23. The LORD said to MOSES, "Has The LORD's hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."

24. MOSES went out, and told the people The LORD's words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.

25. The LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

26. But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.

27. A young man ran, and told MOSES, and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"

28. Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of MOSES, one of his chosen men, answered, "My lord MOSES, forbid them!"

29. MOSES said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all The LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!"

30. MOSES went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

9. I spoke to you at that time, saying, "I am not able to bear you myself alone.

10. The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

11. The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

12. How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

13. Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

14. You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good to do."

15. So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

16. I commanded your judges at that time, saying, "Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

17. You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it."

18. I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.