Exodus 18:18

18You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. aYou are not able to do it alone.

Exodus 18:22

22And blet them judge the people at all times. cEvery great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will dbear the burden with you.

Exodus 18:26

26And ethey judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.

Deuteronomy 17:8-10

Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges

8If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to fthe place that the Lord your God will choose. 9 gAnd you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and hthey shall declare to you the decision. 10Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the Lord will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.
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