These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Exodus 18
Tanakh 27 verses
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Now Jethro, the of Midian, Moses’ father-in-, heard of all that had done for , and for His people, how that had brought out of .
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Exodus 2:16 Exodus 3:1 Psalm 77:14-15 Psalm 136:10-16 Numbers 10:29 Joshua 2:10 Psalm 105:43 Judges 4:11 Exodus 7:1-15 Exodus 4:18 Psalm 105:36-41 Acts 21:19-20 Acts 15:12 Acts 14:27 Psalm 78:50-53 Acts 7:35-36 Psalm 106:2 Romans 15:18 Galatians 1:23-24 Jeremiah 33:9 Psalm 106:8-11 Zechariah 8:23 Isaiah 63:11-13 Nehemiah 9:10-11 Psalm 34:2 Exodus 2:18 Exodus 2:21 Psalm 105:5 Psalm 44:1 Joshua 9:9 Psalm 78:4 -
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And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
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and her two sons; of whom the of the one was Gershom; for he said: ‘I have been a stranger in a strange land’;
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- 4 and the of the other was Eliezer: ‘for the of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.’
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And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-, came with his sons and his wife unto into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of ;
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- 6 and he said unto : ‘I thy father-in- Jethro am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.’
- 7 And went out to meet his father-in-, and bowed down and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
- 8 And told his father-in- all that had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how delivered them.
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And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which had done to , in that He had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
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- 10 And Jethro said: ‘Blessed be , who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
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Now I that is greater than all Elohims; yea, for that they dealt proudly against them.’
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2 Chronicles 2:5 Exodus 15:11 Psalm 95:3 Luke 1:51 Daniel 4:37 Psalm 97:9 1 Chronicles 16:25 Psalm 135:5 2 Kings 5:15 James 4:6 Psalm 119:21 Nehemiah 9:10 Exodus 9:16-17 Psalm 31:23 Nehemiah 9:16 Job 40:11-12 1 Kings 17:24 Exodus 5:7 Exodus 14:18 Exodus 1:16 Exodus 12:12 Exodus 1:10 Exodus 5:2 Exodus 10:3 1 Samuel 2:3 Exodus 14:8 Nehemiah 9:29 1 Peter 5:5 Exodus 1:22 -
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And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-, took a burnt- and sacrifices for ; and came, and all the elders of , to eat bread with Moses’ father-in- before .
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Genesis 31:54 Deuteronomy 12:7 Exodus 24:11 Exodus 24:5 Deuteronomy 27:7 Luke 14:15 Leviticus 7:11-17 Job 42:8 1 Corinthians 10:18 1 Chronicles 29:21-22 1 Corinthians 10:31 Genesis 8:20 2 Samuel 9:7 Daniel 10:3 Exodus 2:20 Genesis 43:25 Job 42:11 Job 1:5 Genesis 4:4 1 Corinthians 10:21 2 Chronicles 30:22 Genesis 12:7 Luke 14:1 Genesis 26:25 -
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that sat to judge the people; and the people stood about from the morning unto the evening.
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- 14 And when Moses’ father-in- saw all that he did to the people, he said: ‘What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?’
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And said unto his father-in-: ‘Because the people come unto me to inquire of ;
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- 16 when they have a matter, it cometh unto me; and I judge between a man and his neighbour, and I make them the statutes of , and His laws.’
- 17 And Moses’ father-in- said unto him: ‘The thing that thou doest is not good.
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Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.
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- 19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and be with thee: be thou for the people before , and bring thou the causes unto .
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And thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
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Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as , men of , hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
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Acts 6:3 2 Chronicles 19:5-10 Deuteronomy 16:18-19 Exodus 18:25 2 Samuel 23:3 Genesis 42:18 Ezekiel 18:8 Nehemiah 5:9 Isaiah 33:15 Joshua 22:14 Isaiah 59:14-15 Deuteronomy 1:13-17 1 Timothy 3:3 2 Peter 2:14-15 Ecclesiastes 12:13 Isaiah 16:5 Zechariah 8:16 Psalm 15:5 1 Samuel 12:3-4 Numbers 10:4 Genesis 22:12 Proverbs 28:2 1 Samuel 8:12 Luke 18:4 Nehemiah 7:2 1 Kings 18:12 Luke 18:2 1 Kings 18:3 Acts 20:33 Ezekiel 22:12 1 Timothy 6:9-11 Jeremiah 5:1 1 Kings 3:9-12 Psalm 26:9-10 Exodus 23:2-9 Job 31:13 1 Samuel 8:3 Job 29:16 Isaiah 59:4 Zechariah 7:9 - 22 And let them judge the people at all seasons; and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves; so shall they make it easier for thee and bear the burden with thee.
- 23 If thou shalt do this thing, and command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in .’
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So hearkened to the voice of his father-in-, and did all that he had said.
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And chose able men out of all , and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
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And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto , but every small matter they judged themselves.
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And let his father-in- depart; and he went his way into his own land.
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