¹⁸ You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.^(A)

²⁴ Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.

¹⁴ I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.^(A)

²⁴ So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent.