NET Bible
"If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”"
— Exodus 18:23, NET Bible
“If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.”
“If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace. ”
“If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."”
“If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the commandment of God, and shalt be able to bear his precepts: and all this people shall return to their places with peace.”
“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.”
“If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.”
warn them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.
But you choose from the people capable men, God-fearing, men of truth, those who hate bribes, and put them over the people as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
They will judge the people under normal circumstances, and every difficult case they will bring to you, but every small case they themselves will judge, so that you may make it easier for yourself, and they will bear the burden with you.
If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”
Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.
Moses chose capable men from all Israel, and he made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.