Exodus 18:19,20

Exodus 18:19.— Be thou for the people to God-ward] i.e. "Do thou continue still as the mediator between God and the people, going between them: bringing the causes of the people, or their affairs of consequence, before GOD, and receiving from him those statutes and ordinances, those declarations and decisions, which he shall make known to thee; and which thou, in consequence, shalt notify to them, shewing them the way wherein they must walk, and the work which they must do." For the rest, leaving the decision of smaller matters, as is advised in the next verse.