Exodus 18:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Exod 24:14 : 14 And he said to the elders, Wait here for us until we come again to you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man has any matters to do, let him come to them.
  • Deut 4:5 : 5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.
  • Deut 5:1 : 1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and keep, and do them.
  • 2 Sam 15:3 : 3 And Absalom said to him, See, your matters are good and right; but there is no man appointed by the king to hear you.
  • 1 Cor 6:1 : 1 Do any of you, having a matter against someone else, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 Furthermore, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more. 2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
  • Exod 2:13 : 13 And when he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, Why are you hitting your fellow?
  • Exod 23:7 : 7 Keep far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
  • Job 31:13 : 13 If I have despised the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they contended with me;
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
  • Acts 18:14-15 : 14 And when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, 'If it were a matter of wrongdoing or wicked crimes, O Jews, there would be a reason why I should bear with you. 15 But if it is a question of words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; for I do not want to be a judge of such matters.'
  • Deut 6:1 : 1 These are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land you are going to possess:
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If a matter arises that is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of dispute within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses, 9 and you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in office in those days, and inquire, and they shall declare to you the verdict of the judgment. 10 You shall do according to the decision they give you at the place which the LORD chooses, and you shall be careful to do according to all that they instruct you. 11 According to the sentence of the law which they teach you, and according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence they show you, to the right hand or to the left. 12 The man who acts presumptuously and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
  • 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
  • Lev 24:15 : 15 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
  • Num 15:35 : 35 And the LORD said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.
  • Num 27:6-9 : 6 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak rightly: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them. 8 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. 9 And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. 10 And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers. 11 And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest kinsman from his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be a statute of judgment to the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • Num 36:6-9 : 6 This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry whom they think best; only within the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. 7 So the inheritance of the children of Israel shall not transfer from tribe to tribe; for each of the children of Israel shall keep to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that each of the children of Israel may enjoy the inheritance of his fathers. 9 Thus the inheritance shall not transfer from one tribe to another tribe; but each tribe of the children of Israel shall keep to its own inheritance.

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    12And 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.

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

    14When 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?

    15And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

  • Exod 18:22-27
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    22And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves; so it will be easier for you, for they will bear the burden with you.

    23If 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.

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

    25And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

    26And they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

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

  • Exod 18:17
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    17And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that you do is not good.

  • Deut 1:16-18
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    16And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him.

    17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of anyone, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too difficult for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.

    18And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

  • Exod 18:19-20
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    75%

    19Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God will be with you. Be for the people a representative to God, that you may bring the causes to God.

    20And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

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    8If a matter arises that is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of dispute within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses,

    9and you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is in office in those days, and inquire, and they shall declare to you the verdict of the judgment.

    10You shall do according to the decision they give you at the place which the LORD chooses, and you shall be careful to do according to all that they instruct you.

    11According to the sentence of the law which they teach you, and according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence they show you, to the right hand or to the left.

  • Exod 18:1
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    1When 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,

  • Exod 21:1
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    1Now these are the judgments you shall set before them.

  • Deut 16:18
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    18Judges and officers you shall make for yourself in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

  • Exod 18:5-8
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    5And 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.

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

    7And 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.

    8And 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.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6And said to the judges, Take heed what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

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    1If there is a dispute between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

  • Deut 19:17
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    17Then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in that time;

  • Lev 26:46
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  • Num 27:5
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    5And Moses brought their case before the LORD.

  • Num 15:17
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    17And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 18:1
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    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Jer 22:16
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    16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.

  • Ezek 20:11
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    11And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them.

  • Ps 18:22
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    22For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

  • Deut 5:1
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  • Deut 4:14
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    14And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

  • Ps 75:2
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    2When I receive the congregation, I will judge uprightly.

  • Lev 19:1
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    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 2 Chr 19:8
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    8Moreover, in Jerusalem, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.

  • Judg 2:18
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    18And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings due to those who oppressed them and vexed them.

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

  • Ps 7:8
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    8The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

  • Deut 4:5
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    5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.

  • Num 31:1
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    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 33:21
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    21And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, he was settled; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.

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    16And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,