Exodus 18:7–16

⁷So Moses ^hwent out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and ⁱkissed him. And they asked each other about their well-being, and they went into the tent. ⁸And Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how the Lord had ^jdelivered them. ⁹Then Jethro rejoiced for all the ^kgood which the Lord had done for Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. ¹⁰And Jethro said, ^l“Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. ¹¹Now I know that the Lord is ^mgreater than all the gods; ⁿfor in the very thing in which they ⁴behaved ^oproudly, He was above them.” ¹²Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, ⁵took a burnt ^poffering and other sacrifices to offer to God. And Aaron came with all the elders of Israel ^qto eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

¹³And so it was, on the next day, that Moses ^rsat to judge the people; and the people stood before Moses from morning until evening. ¹⁴So when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone ⁶sit, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?”

¹⁵And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because ^sthe people come to me to inquire of God. ¹⁶When they have ^ta ⁷difficulty, they come to me, and I judge between one and another; and I make known the statutes of God and His laws.”