Moses is suffering under the heavy demands of his job: sitting in judgment over every petty disagreement the Hebrews can come up with, and dealing with an ace prosecutor to boot. His father-in-law Jethro suggests he avoid burn-out by starting a sprawling bureaucratic pyramid scheme and taking only the biggest cases. God steps in to help further by staging an eardrum-splitting concert at Mount Sinai, complete with pyrotechnics and smoke machines. God then announces ten very important rules that the people should follow (most of which are about him), and some less important rules about abstract art and how not to build altars. (Exodus 18:1-20:26)