Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people's representative before God and bring their disputes to him. Jethro frames his counsel within divine blessing — may God be with you — and immediately clarifies Moses' irreplaceable role: representative before God. The work of intercession, bringing the people's situation before God, is Moses' non-delegable function. This is the function of the priest in Israel's later structure and ultimately of Christ in Hebrews 7:25: he always lives to intercede for them. Moses the mediator who stands between the people and God is doing work that cannot be shared. The judicial work can be shared; the intercessory work cannot.

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