Exodus 18:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Exod 18:12-16
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    86%

    12Jethro, 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.

    13It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

    14When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"

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

    16When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

  • Exod 18:18-19
    2 verses
    82%

    18You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

    19Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

  • Exod 18:23-24
    2 verses
    82%

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

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

  • Exod 18:26-27
    2 verses
    79%

    26They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

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

  • Exod 18:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

    2Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

  • Exod 18:5-10
    6 verses
    78%

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

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

    7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

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

    9Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

    10Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, 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
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    17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 17:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 18:1
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    1Yahweh said to Moses,

  • Num 10:29-30
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    29Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, I will give it you: come you with us, and we will do you good; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.

    30He said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives.

  • Exod 4:18
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    18Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

  • Num 14:41
    72%

    41Moses said, Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, seeing it shall not prosper?

  • Exod 3:1
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    1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.

  • Lev 19:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 27:15
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    15Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

  • Num 25:16
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    16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 5:11
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    11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 31:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 22:17
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    17Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 5:22
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    22Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

  • Lev 22:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 16:28
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    28Moses said, Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of my own mind.

  • Num 15:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 6:10
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    10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 11:11
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    11Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

  • Deut 27:11
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    11Moses charged the people the same day, saying,

  • Exod 17:4
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    4Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."

  • Lev 20:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 27:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 3:11
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    11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 16:28
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    28Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

  • Exod 19:7
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    7Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.

  • Exod 2:14
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    14He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."

  • Exod 8:26
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    26Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and won't they stone us?

  • Lev 6:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,