Exodus 18:7–16

⁷So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law; he bowed down and kissed him; each asked after the other’s welfare, and they went into the tent.^{* 8}Then 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 found them on the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.^{* 9}Jethro rejoiced for all the good that the Lord had done to Israel, in delivering them from the Egyptians.

¹⁰Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you from the Egyptians and from Pharaoh.^{* 11}Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people from the Egyptians,^h when they dealt arrogantly with them.”^{* 12}And Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’s father-in-law in the presence of God.

¹³The next day Moses sat as judge for the people, while the people stood around him from morning until evening. ¹⁴When Moses’s father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?” ¹⁵Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.^{* 16}When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.”