Mar.
8
Exodus
18
Exo
18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard
of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how
that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Exo
18:2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife,
after he had sent her away,
Exo
18:3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses
said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".
Exo
18:4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My
father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."
Exo
18:5 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife
to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain
of God.
Exo
18:6 He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to
you with your wife, and her two sons with her.
Exo
18:7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed
him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the
tent.
Exo
18:8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to
Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships
that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
Exo
18:9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to
Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the
Egyptians.
Exo
18:10 Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who
has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exo
18:11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the
thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."
Exo
18:12 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and
sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to
eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
Exo
18:13 It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the
people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the
evening.
Exo
18:14 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people,
he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do
you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to
evening?"
Exo
18:15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come
to me to inquire of God.
Exo
18:16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between
a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and
his laws."
Exo
18:17 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do
is not good.
Exo
18:18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is
with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to
perform it yourself alone.
Exo
18:19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be
with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes
to God.
Exo
18:20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show
them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Exo
18:21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men,
such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such
over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exo
18:22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every
great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they
shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall
share the load with you.
Exo
18:23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you
will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their
place in peace."
Exo
18:24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did
all that he had said.
Exo
18:25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads
over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exo
18:26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard
causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exo
18:27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into
his own land.
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