Exodus Chapter 18

• Exodus 18:1
  Exodus.
• Exodus 18:2
  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 the LORD had brought I...
• Exodus 18:3
  Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
• Exodus 18:4
  and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
• Exodus 18:5
  The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
• Exodus 18:6
  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
  He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”
• Exodus 18:8
  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 18:9
  Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on ...
• Exodus 18:10
  Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
• Exodus 18:11
  Jethro said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the peopl...
• Exodus 18:12
  Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
• Exodus 18:13
  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-...
• Exodus 18:14
  On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
• Exodus 18:15
  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 th...
• Exodus 18:16
  Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
• Exodus 18:17
  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 18:18
  Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
• Exodus 18:19
  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 alo...
• Exodus 18:20
  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 18:21
  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 18:22
  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 ...
• Exodus 18:23
  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 themselve...
• Exodus 18:24
  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 18:25
  So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
• Exodus 18:26
  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...
• Exodus 18:27
  They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
• Exodus 18:28
  Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.