Exodus 18:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God.

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  • Gen 31:54 : 54 And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain.
  • Deut 12:7 : 7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.
  • Exod 24:5 : 5 And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord.
  • Exod 24:11 : 11 And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.
  • Lev 7:11-17 : 11 And this is the law for the peace-offerings offered to the Lord. 12 If any man gives his offering as a praise-offering, then let him give with the offering, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil and cakes of the best meal well mixed with oil. 13 With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering. 14 And let him give one out of every offering to be lifted up before the Lord; that it may be for the priest who puts the blood of the peace-offering on the altar. 15 And the flesh of the praise-offering is to be taken as food on the day when it is offered; no part of it may be kept till the morning. 16 But if his offering is made because of an oath or given freely, it may be taken as food on the day when it is offered; and the rest may be used up on the day after: 17 But if any of the flesh of the offering is still unused on the third day, it is to be burned with fire.
  • Gen 43:25 : 25 And when Joseph came in, they gave him the things which they had for him, and went down to the earth before him.
  • Exod 2:20 : 20 And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.
  • Gen 4:4 : 4 And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;
  • Gen 8:20 : 20 And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
  • Gen 26:25 : 25 Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.
  • Deut 27:7 : 7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.
  • 2 Sam 9:7 : 7 And David said to him, Have no fear: for truly I will be good to you, because of your father Jonathan, and I will give back to you all the land which was Saul's; and you will have a place at my table at all times.
  • 1 Chr 29:21-22 : 21 And they made offerings to the Lord, and gave burned offerings to the Lord, on the day after, a thousand oxen, a thousand sheep, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and a great wealth of offerings for all Israel. 22 And with great joy they made a feast before the Lord that day. And they made Solomon, the son of David, king a second time, putting the holy oil on him to make him holy to the Lord as ruler, and on Zadok as priest.
  • 2 Chr 30:22 : 22 And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord: so they kept the feast for seven days, offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers.
  • Job 1:5 : 5 And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Job 42:11 : 11 And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.
  • Dan 10:3 : 3 I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.
  • Luke 14:1 : 1 And it came about that when he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees on the Sabbath, to have a meal, they were watching him.
  • Luke 14:15 : 15 And, hearing these words, one of those who were at table with him said to him, Happy is the man who will be a guest in the kingdom of God.
  • 1 Cor 10:18 : 18 See Israel after the flesh: do not those who take as food the offerings of the altar take a part in the altar?
  • 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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  • Exod 18:1-2
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    1 Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.

    2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

  • Exod 18:5-11
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    5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God.

    6 And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons.

    7 And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent.

    8 And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.

    9 And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to Israel, freeing them from the power of the Egyptians.

    10 And Jethro said, Praise be to the Lord, who has taken you out of the hand of Pharaoh and out of the hand of the Egyptians; freeing the people from the yoke of the Egyptians.

    11 Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.

  • Exod 18:13-17
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    13 Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.

    14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening?

    15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:

    16 And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.

    17 And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.

  • Exod 18:23-24
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    75%

    23 If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.

    24 So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.

  • Exod 3:1
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    1 Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Lev 8:31
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    31 And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, The flesh is to be cooked in water at the door of the Tent of meeting, and there you are to take it as food, together with the bread in the basket, as I have given orders, saying, It is the food of Aaron and his sons.

  • Exod 18:27
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    27 And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

  • Lev 22:17
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    17 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 4:18
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    18 And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

  • Exod 24:9
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    9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:

  • Exod 10:25
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    25 But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God.

  • Num 11:30
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    30 Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back to the tent-circle.

  • Lev 8:28-29
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    28 And Moses took them from their hands, and they were burned on the altar on the burned offering, as a priest's offering for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

    29 And Moses took the breast, waving it for a wave offering before the Lord; it was Moses' part of the sheep of the priest's offering, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Exod 8:25-26
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    25 And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land.

    26 And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our offerings of that to which the Egyptians give worship; and if we do so before their eyes, certainly we will be stoned.

  • Lev 10:19
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    19 And Aaron said to Moses, You have seen that today they have made their sin-offering and their burned offering before the Lord, and such things as these have come on me. If I had taken the sin-offering as food today, would it have been pleasing to the Lord?

  • Lev 6:19
    70%

    19 The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.

  • Exod 4:29
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    29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

  • Exod 19:7
    70%

    7 And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.

  • Exod 24:1
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    1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

  • Num 10:29
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    29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

  • Exod 34:8
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    8 Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship.

  • Exod 24:5
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    5 And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord.

  • Deut 27:7
    69%

    7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

  • Exod 24:11
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    11 And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.

  • Exod 29:32
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    32 And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting.

  • Lev 8:21
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    21 And the inside parts and the legs were washed with water and all the sheep was burned by Moses on the altar; it was a burned offering for a sweet smell: it was an offering made by fire to the Lord, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Lev 10:12
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    12 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were still living, Take the rest of the meal offering from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and take it for your food, without leaven, at the side of the altar, for it is most holy.

  • Exod 29:23
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    23 And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

  • Lev 9:1
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    1 And on the eighth day Moses sent for Aaron and his sons and the responsible men of Israel;

  • Exod 40:23
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    23 And he put the bread on it in order before the Lord, as the Lord had said.

  • Exod 2:20
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    20 And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.