Exodus 18:22
They must be the ones who usually settle disagreements among the people. They should bring all-important cases to you. But they should settle all minor cases themselves. Make it easier for yourself by letting them help you.
Numbers 11:17
I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the spirit I have given and give it to them. Then they can help you bear the responsibility for these people. You will not have to bear it alone.
Exodus 18:26
They judged the people on a permanent basis. The difficult cases were taken to Moses but they decided the smaller disputes themselves.
Leviticus 24:11
The Israelite woman's son began cursing Jehovah's name and treating it with contempt. So they brought him to Moses.
Numbers 15:33
He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation.
Numbers 27:2
They came to Moses and stood in front of him, the priest Eleazar, the leaders, and the entire congregation at the entrance to the tent of meeting. They said:
Numbers 36:1
The heads of the families in the clan of Gilead the son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh son of Joseph, went to Moses and the other leaders.
Exodus 18:18
You and your people will wear yourselves out. This is too much work for you. You cannot do it alone!
Deuteronomy 1:17-18
You will not show partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great. You will not fear man for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Deuteronomy 17:8-9
If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between one kind of homicide or another, between one kind of lawsuit or another, and between one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your courts, then you should go to the place Jehovah your God chooses.
Romans 13:6
That is why you pay taxes. They are God's ministers continually serving this very purpose.