Exodus 18:7–16

⁷And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace. And when he was come into the tent,

⁸Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.

⁹And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians.

¹⁰And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered his people out of the hand of Egypt.

¹¹Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.

¹²So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God.

¹³And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by Moses from morning until night.

¹⁴And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night?

¹⁵And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God?

¹⁶And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.