Êxodo 18

17 And Jethro said, Thou doest a thing that is not good,

18 thou art wasted with a fond [or folly] travail, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the work is above thy strengths, thou alone mayest not suffer it.

19 But hear thou my words, and my counsels, and the Lord shall be with thee; be thou to the people in these things that pertain to God, that thou tell the things that be said to the people;

20 and show to the people the ceremonies, and [the] customs of worshipping, and the way by which they owe to go, and the work which they owe to do.

21 Forsooth purvey thou of all the people wise men, and dreading God, in which is truth, and which hate avarice; and ordain thou of them tribunes [or rulers upon thousands], and centurions [or rulers upon hundreds], and quinquagenaries [or rulers upon fifty], and deans [or rulers upon ten],

22 which shall deem the people in all time; soothly whatever thing is greater, tell they to thee, and deem they only [the] lesser things, and be it easier to thee, when the burden is parted into other men.

23 If thou shalt do this, thou shalt fulfill the commandment of God, and thou shalt be able to bear his com-mandments; and all this people shall turn again with peace to their places.