Exodus 18:9-15

9Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the Lord had done for Israel when he rescued them from the power of the Egyptians.

10“Blessed be the Lord,” Jethro exclaimed, “who rescued you from the power of Egypt and from the power of Pharaoh. He has rescued the people from under the power of Egypt!

11Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he did wonders when the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel.”

12Then Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’s father-in-law in God’s presence.

13The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.

14When Moses’s father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, “What is this you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

15Moses replied to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.