Exodus 18:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God. Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Jethro,{H3503} Moses'{H4872} father-in-law,{H2859} took{H3947} a burnt-offering{H5930} and sacrifices{H2077} for God:{H430} and Aaron{H175} came,{H935} and all the elders{H2205} of Israel,{H3478} to eat{H398} bread{H3899} with Moses'{H4872} father-in-law{H2859} before{H6440} God.{H430}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Jethro{H3503}, Moses{H4872}' father in law{H2859}{(H8802)}, took{H3947}{(H8799)} a burnt offering{H5930} and sacrifices{H2077} for God{H430}: and Aaron{H175} came{H935}{(H8799)}, and all the elders{H2205} of Israel{H3478}, to eat{H398}{(H8800)} bread{H3899} with Moses{H4872}' father in law{H2859}{(H8802)} before{H6440} God{H430}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    And Iethro Moses father in lawe offred burntoffrynges and sacrifyces vnto God. And Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eate bred with Moses father in lawe before God.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And Iethro toke brentofferynges, and offered vnto God. Then came Aaron and all ye elders of Israel to eate bred with Moses father in lawe before God.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Then Iethro Moses father in lawe tooke burnt offerings and sacrifices to offer vnto God; Aaron & all the Elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses father in law before God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And Iethro Moyses father in lawe toke burnt offeringes and sacrifices, to offer to God: And Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eate bread with Moyses father in lawe before God.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, taketh a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron cometh in, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses, before God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they ate bread, and stayed all night on the mount.
  • Deut 12:7 : 7 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.
  • Exod 24:5 : 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD.
  • Exod 24:11 : 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he did not lay his hand: also they saw God, and ate and drank.
  • Lev 7:11-17 : 11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer to the LORD. 12 If he offers it for thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, fried. 13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings. 14 And from it he shall offer one out of the whole offering as a wave offering to the LORD, and it shall be the priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. 15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until morning. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day he offers his sacrifice: and on the next day, the remainder of it shall also be eaten: 17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
  • Gen 43:25 : 25 And they prepared the gift for Joseph's coming at noon: for they heard that they would eat bread there.
  • Exod 2:20 : 20 And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.
  • Gen 4:4 : 4 And Abel also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect for Abel and his offering:
  • Gen 8:20 : 20 And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.
  • Gen 26:25 : 25 And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants dug a well.
  • Deut 27:7 : 7 And you shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God.
  • 2 Sam 9:7 : 7 And David said to him, Fear not: for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat bread at my table continually.
  • 1 Chr 29:21-22 : 21 And they offered sacrifices to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings to the LORD, on the next day after that day, even a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel: 22 And they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.
  • 2 Chr 30:22 : 22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
  • Job 1:5 : 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 Therefore take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your foolishness, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
  • Job 42:11 : 11 Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before came to him and ate food with him in his house, and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of money and a gold earring.
  • Dan 10:3 : 3 I ate no desirable food, neither did meat nor wine enter my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were completed.
  • Luke 14:1 : 1 And it happened, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
  • Luke 14:15 : 15 And when one of them who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
  • 1 Cor 10:18 : 18 Consider Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
  • 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 18:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt,

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

  • Exod 18:5-11
    7 verses
    81%

    5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mount of God.

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

    7 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down, and kissed him; and they asked each other about their well-being; and they went into the tent.

    8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the hardships that had come upon them along the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

    9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good which the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

    10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

    11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.

  • Exod 18:13-17
    5 verses
    77%

    13 And it happened on the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood by Moses from morning until evening.

    14 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 sit alone, and all the people stand by you from morning to evening?

    15 And Moses 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 judge between one and another, and make them know the statutes of God and His laws.

    17 And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that you do is not good.

  • Exod 18:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23 If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will go to their place in peace.

    24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he said.

  • Exod 3:1
    74%

    1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

  • Lev 8:31
    72%

    31 And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

  • Exod 18:27
    72%

    27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land.

  • Lev 22:17
    71%

    17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

  • Exod 4:18
    71%

    18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray, and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

  • Exod 24:9
    71%

    9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

  • Exod 10:25
    71%

    25 And Moses said, You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

  • Num 11:30
    71%

    30 And Moses returned to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

  • Lev 8:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28 And Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering as consecrations for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

    29 And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the LORD; it was Moses' part of the ram of consecration, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Exod 8:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go, sacrifice to your God in the land.

    26 And Moses said, It is not appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

  • Lev 10:19
    70%

    19 And Aaron said to Moses, 'Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, and such things have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?'

  • Lev 6:19
    70%

    19 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 4:29
    70%

    29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

  • Exod 19:7
    70%

    7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.

  • Exod 24:1
    70%

    1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the LORD, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship afar off.

  • Num 10:29
    70%

    29 And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place which the LORD said, I will give it to you: come with us, and we will do you good: for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel.

  • Exod 34:8
    70%

    8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

  • Exod 24:5
    70%

    5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD.

  • Deut 27:7
    69%

    7 And you shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there, and rejoice before the LORD your God.

  • Exod 24:11
    69%

    11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he did not lay his hand: also they saw God, and ate and drank.

  • Exod 29:32
    69%

    32 Then Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

  • Lev 8:21
    69%

    21 And he washed the entrails and the legs in water; and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Lev 10:12
    69%

    12 And Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his surviving sons, 'Take the grain offering that remains of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy;

  • Exod 29:23
    69%

    23 And one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD,

  • Lev 9:1
    69%

    1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

  • Exod 40:23
    69%

    23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 2:20
    69%

    20 And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.