Exodus 18:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.

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  • Acts 6:1-4 : 1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day. 2 And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food. 3 Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business. 4 Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.
  • Num 11:14-17 : 14 I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength. 15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame. 16 And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you. 17 And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.
  • Deut 1:9-9 : 9 At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself; 10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number. 11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said! 12 How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.
  • 1 Thess 2:8-9 : 8 Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us. 9 For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

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  • Exod 18:13-17
    5 verses
    82%

    13Now 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.

    14And 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?

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

    16And 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.

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

  • Exod 18:22-24
    3 verses
    80%

    22And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.

    23If 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.

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

  • Num 11:11-17
    7 verses
    78%

    11And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?

    12Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers?

    13Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

    14I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.

    15If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

    16And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you.

    17And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.

  • Exod 18:19-20
    2 verses
    77%

    19Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

    20Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do.

  • Deut 1:12
    75%

    12How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

  • Deut 1:9
    73%

    9At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;

  • Exod 18:8
    69%

    8And 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.

  • Exod 18:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

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

  • Exod 17:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.

    5And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.

  • Num 14:13
    68%

    13And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

  • Exod 18:1
    68%

    1Now 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.

  • Exod 4:15
    68%

    15Let him give ear to your voice, and you will put my words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his, teaching you what you have to do.

  • Exod 19:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy.

    24And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly.

  • Exod 33:12
    68%

    12And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes.

  • Exod 5:4
    68%

    4And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.

  • Num 11:23
    68%

    23And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.

  • Deut 31:16
    67%

    16And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them.

  • Josh 1:5
    67%

    5While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.

  • Exod 33:15
    67%

    15And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here.

  • Num 32:15
    67%

    15For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

  • Exod 24:14
    67%

    14And he said to the chiefs, Keep your places here till we come back to you: Aaron and Hur are with you; if anyone has any cause let him go to them.

  • Exod 17:12
    67%

    12But Moses' hands became tired; so they put a stone under him and he took his seat on it, Aaron and Hur supporting his hands, one on one side and one on the other; so his hands were kept up without falling till the sun went down.

  • Deut 31:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7Then Moses sent for Joshua, and before the eyes of all Israel said to him, Be strong and take heart: for you are to go with this people into the land which the Lord, by his oath to their fathers, has given them; by your help they will take it for their heritage.

    8It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not take away his help from you or give you up: so have no fear.

  • Deut 27:11
    67%

    11That same day Moses said to the people,

  • Num 18:2
    67%

    2Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

  • Deut 1:31
    67%

    31And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.

  • Num 14:41
    67%

    41And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

  • 2 Sam 15:33
    66%

    33David said to him, If you go on with me, you will be a trouble to me:

  • Josh 22:18
    66%

    18That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.

  • Exod 32:11
    66%

    11But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

  • Exod 5:22
    66%

    22And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?

  • Deut 1:18
    66%

    18And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.

  • Exod 33:5
    66%

    5And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.