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Exodus 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?”

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Exodus 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?”

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Exodus 18:13
On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

Exodus 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?”

Exodus 18:15
Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

Exodus 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.”

Exodus 18:17
Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.

Exodus 18:27
Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

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Exodus 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 Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 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.

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Exodus 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.

Exodus 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.

Exodus 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.

Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which 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.

Exodus 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.

Exodus 18:23
If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

Exodus 18:24
So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

Exodus 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.

Exodus 18:26
They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Deuteronomy 17:9
You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

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Genesis 29:22
Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

Genesis 31:6
You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

Exodus 33:19
He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

Numbers 14:2
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Deuteronomy 2:32
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.

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Exodus 17:5
Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

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Exodus 18:5
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.

Exodus 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.

Exodus 18:12
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.


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