Exodus 18:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Exod 18:12-16
    5 verses
    86%

    12 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.

    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.

  • Exod 18:18-19
    2 verses
    82%

    18 You will surely wear yourself out, and these people who are with you as well, for this thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it by yourself.

    19 Listen 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.

  • Exod 18:23-24
    2 verses
    82%

    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 18:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

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

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

  • Exod 18:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    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 18:5-10
    6 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Num 15:17
    73%

    17 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 17:1
    73%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 18:1
    73%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 10:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    30 And he said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred.

  • Exod 4:18
    72%

    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.

  • Num 14:41
    72%

    41 And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.

  • Exod 3:1
    72%

    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 19:1
    72%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 27:15
    70%

    15 And Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,

  • Num 25:16
    70%

    16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 5:11
    70%

    11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:1
    70%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 22:17
    70%

    17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

  • Exod 5:22
    70%

    22 And Moses returned to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you mistreated this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

  • Lev 22:1
    70%

    1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

  • Num 16:28
    70%

    28 And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own will.

  • Num 15:1
    70%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 6:10
    70%

    10 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 11:11
    69%

    11 And Moses said to the LORD, Why have You afflicted Your servant? and why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You lay the burden of all this people upon me?

  • Deut 27:11
    69%

    11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

  • Exod 17:4
    69%

    4 And Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

  • Lev 20:1
    69%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 27:1
    69%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 3:11
    69%

    11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 16:28
    69%

    28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

  • Exod 19:7
    69%

    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 2:14
    69%

    14 And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses was afraid and said, Surely this thing is known.

  • Exod 8:26
    69%

    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 6:1
    69%

    1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,