Exodus 18:15
Moses said to his father-in-law,“Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
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- Num 15:34 : 34 They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.
- Num 27:5 : 5 So Moses brought their case before the LORD.
- Deut 17:8-9 : 8 Appeal to a Higher Court If a matter is too difficult for you to judge– bloodshed, legal claim, or assault– matters of controversy in your villages– you must leave there and go up to the place the LORD your God chooses. 9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict. 10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught. 11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you. 12 The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the LORD your God there, or to the judge– that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel. 13 Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.
- Exod 18:19-20 : 19 Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God; 20 warn them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.
- Lev 24:12-14 : 12 So they placed him in custody until they were able to make a clear legal decision for themselves based on words from the mouth of the LORD. 13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses: 14 “Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.
- Num 9:6 : 6 It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
- Num 9:8 : 8 So Moses said to them,“Remain here and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”
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- Exod 18:12-143 verses86%
12Then 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.
13On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.
14When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said,“What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”
- Exod 18:16-194 verses84%
16When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”
17Moses’ father-in-law said to him,“What you are doing is not good!
18You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.
19Now listen to me, I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, and you bring their disputes to God;
- Exod 18:23-275 verses82%
23If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”
24Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.
25Moses chose capable men from all Israel, and he made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
26They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.
27Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.
- Exod 18:1-22 verses82%
1The Advice of Jethro Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,
- Exod 18:5-84 verses81%
5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camping by the mountain of God.
6He said to Moses,“I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”
7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.
8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
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1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, 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.
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1Exhortation to Obedience and Life The LORD spoke to Moses:
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15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:
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18The Return of Moses So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him,“Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses,“Go in peace.”
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17Rules for First Fruits The LORD spoke to Moses:
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5So Moses brought their case before the LORD.
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7So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,
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1Sacrificial Rulings The LORD spoke to Moses:
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29The Appeal to Hobab Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,“We are journeying to the place about which the LORD said,‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things for Israel.”
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1Religious and Social Regulations The LORD spoke to Moses:
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1The Slaughter of Animals The LORD spoke to Moses:
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22The Assurance of Deliverance Moses returned to the LORD, and said,“Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?
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25So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.
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1The Midianite War The LORD spoke to Moses:
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13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–
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11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said,“O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
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18So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked,“Why have you come home so early today?”
- Exod 3:10-112 verses72%
10So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
11Moses said to God,“Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
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4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”
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16Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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15When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.
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3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:
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31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,
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28Then Moses said,“This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.
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1Regulations for the Eating of Priestly Stipends The LORD spoke to Moses:
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17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.
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9The LORD said to Moses,“I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.” And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.
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1The Materials for the Sanctuary The LORD spoke to Moses:
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4When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said,“Moses, Moses!” And Moses said,“Here I am.”
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13Moses said to God,“If I go to the Israelites and tell them,‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me,‘What is his name?’– what should I say to them?”