So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said,“ It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

十二使徒叫众门徒来，对他们说：“我们撇下神的道去管理饭食，原是不合宜的。

十二使徒叫众门徒来，说：“我们撇下上帝的道去管理饭食，是不合宜的。

十二使徒叫众门徒来，说：“我们撇下神的道去管理饭食，是不合宜的。

于是，十二使徒召集所有的门徒，对他们说：“我们不应该忽略传上帝的道，去管理膳食。

于是十二使徒召集了众门徒，说：“要我们放下神的道，去管理伙食，是不合适的。

于是十二使徒召来全体门徒，说：“我们撇下神的话语，去管理饭食，是不妥当的。

十二使徒叫眾門徒來，對他們說：「我們撇下神的道去管理飯食，原是不合宜的。

十二使徒叫眾門徒來，說：「我們撇下上帝的道去管理飯食，是不合宜的。

十二使徒叫眾門徒來，說：「我們撇下神的道去管理飯食，是不合宜的。

於是，十二使徒召集所有的門徒，對他們說：「我們不應該忽略傳上帝的道，去管理膳食。

於是十二使徒召集了眾門徒，說：“要我們放下神的道，去管理伙食，是不合適的。

十二個人就把那一羣門徒叫來，說：『我們撇下上帝之道，而在飯席上作服事的工，並不是令人愜意的事。

於是十二使徒召來全體門徒，說：「我們撇下神的話語，去管理飯食，是不妥當的。

十二徒召眾門徒曰、我儕遺上帝道、而几筵是役、非宜也、

十二使徒、呼眾門徒、曰、我儕不傳上帝道、而几筵是司、非所宜也、

十二使徒告眾門徒曰、我儕不傳天主道、而司几席非所宜也、

十二宗徒因召同人至、曰：『為几筵之事而曠傳道之職、非所宜也。

So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said,“ It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables.

So the 12 apostles gathered all the believers together. They said,“ It wouldn’t be right for us to give up teaching God’s word. And we’d have to stop teaching to wait on tables.

And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said,“ It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.

So the Twelve called a meeting of all the believers. They said,“ We apostles should spend our time teaching the word of God, not running a food program.

The Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said,“ It would not be right for us to give up preaching the word of God to wait on tables.

So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said,“ It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said,“ It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables.

And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables.

Then the Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said,“ It would not be right for us to give up preaching about God to handle financial matters.

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples[ unto them], and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said,“ It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

Moses’ father-in-law said to him,“ What you are doing is not good!You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;warn them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.But you choose from the people capable men, God-fearing, men of truth, those who hate bribes, and put them over the people as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.They will judge the people under normal circumstances, and every difficult case they will bring to you, but every small case they themselves will judge, so that you may make it easier for yourself, and they will bear the burden with you.If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.Moses chose capable men from all Israel, and he made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

I also said to you at that time,“ I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.Indeed, may the LORD, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?Select wise and practical men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders.”You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.

And Moses said to the LORD,“ Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me,‘ Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land which you swore to their fathers?From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me,‘ Give us meat, that we may eat!’

So I sent messengers to them saying,“ I am engaged in an important work, and I am unable to come down. Why should the work come to a halt when I leave it to come down to you?”

For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him.”

What then should we do? They will no doubt hear that you have come.

But Peter and John replied,“ Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,