They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Exodus 18:26 in context
Exodus 18:23–27
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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.”
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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.
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They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
27
Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
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