Exodus 18:13-15

International Standard Version

Jethro Advises Moses to Appoint Judges

¹³ The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening. 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 do you alone sit as judge,^[a] with all the people standing around you from morning until evening?”

¹⁵ Moses told his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to seek God’s will.^[b]