Éxodo 18:22

22 Y que juzguen ellos al pueblo en todo tiempo; y que traigan a ti todo pleito grave, pero que ellos juzguen todo pleito sencillo. Así será más fácil para ti, y ellos llevarán la carga contigo.

Éxodo 18:22 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 18:22

And let them judge the people at all times
In their several districts, whenever a matter of difference between man and man arises, and the case is brought before them, let them judge impartially between them, and determine what is right and wrong, and execute judgment and justice truly; which would take off a great deal of business from the hands of Moses:

and it shall be that every great matter they shall bring to thee;
any affair of great importance, and difficult of determination, and about which the judges may have some doubt in their minds, and they are not clear as to the decision of it; this, they the judges, not the people, were to bring to Moses:

but every small matter;
which is of no great importance, or is easy of decision, where the right and the wrong clearly appear, and there is no difficulty in the determination of it:

so shall it be easier for thyself;
to go through the business that would be necessarily devolved upon him, as the chief ruler and governor, supreme judge, lawgiver, leader, and commander:

and they shall bear the burden with thee;
of ruling and judging the people; they taking a share of it, it would sit the lighter and easier upon him; and the whole seems to be wise and prudent counsel.

Éxodo 18:22 In-Context

20 Y enséñales los estatutos y las leyes, y hazles saber el camino en que deben andar y la obra que han de realizar.

21 Además, escogerás de entre todo el pueblo hombres capaces, temerosos de Dios, hombres veraces que aborrezcan las ganancias deshonestas, y los pondrás sobre el pueblo como jefes de mil, de cien, de cincuenta y de diez.

22 Y que juzguen ellos al pueblo en todo tiempo; y que traigan a ti todo pleito grave, pero que ellos juzguen todo pleito sencillo. Así será más fácil para ti, y ellos llevarán la carga contigo.

23 Si haces esto, y Dios te lo manda, tú podrás resistir y todo este pueblo por su parte irá en paz a su lugar.

24 Moisés escuchó a su suegro, e hizo todo lo que él había dicho.