Exodus 18:14-16

New Catholic Bible

¹⁴ Jethro, seeing what he was doing for the people, said to him, “What is this that you do for the people? Why do you sit in judgment alone, while the people stand before you from morning until evening?”

¹⁵ Moses answered his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire the will of God. ¹⁶ When they have some question, they come to me and I judge the matter between them and let them know the statutes of God and his laws.”