Exodus 18:17-21

Moses’ father-in-law then said to him, “The thing that you are doing is not good.

You will surely wear out, both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.

Now listen to me: I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You be the people’s representative before God, and you bring the disputes to God,

then admonish them about the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they are to walk and the work they are to do.

Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.