NITHYAM SONGSExodus 18
World English Bible (WEB) • 27 verses
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 the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
RelatedExodus 3:1 · Exodus 2:16 · Psalms 77:14-15 · Psalms 106:8-11 · Psalms 136:10-16 · Psalms 106:2
2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
3and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
4The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
RelatedHebrews 13:6 · 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 · Acts 12:11 · 2 Timothy 4:17 · Psalms 46:1 · Psalms 18:1
5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ 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 the LORD 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 the LORD delivered them.
RelatedNehemiah 9:9-15 · Psalms 81:7 · Psalms 145:4-12 · Psalms 107:2 · Numbers 20:14 · Nehemiah 9:32
9Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10Jethro 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.
11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
RelatedPsalms 95:3 · Exodus 15:11 · 2 Chronicles 2:5 · Luke 1:51 · Psalms 135:5 · 1 Chronicles 16:25
12Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
13On the next day, 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.
RelatedNumbers 27:5 · Numbers 15:34 · Deuteronomy 17:8-13 · Leviticus 24:12-14 · Numbers 9:8 · Numbers 9:6
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.”
RelatedExodus 24:14 · 1 Corinthians 6:1 · 2 Samuel 15:3 · Deuteronomy 5:1 · Deuteronomy 4:5 · Acts 18:14-15
17Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
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.
RelatedNumbers 11:14-17 · Acts 6:1-4 · Philippians 2:30 · 2 Corinthians 12:15 · Deuteronomy 1:9-12 · 1 Thessalonians 2:8-9
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.
RelatedNumbers 27:5 · Exodus 3:12 · Genesis 39:2 · Deuteronomy 5:5 · Exodus 20:19 · Deuteronomy 20:1
20You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:1 · Psalms 143:8 · Deuteronomy 1:18 · Psalms 32:8 · Deuteronomy 4:5 · Deuteronomy 4:1
21Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
RelatedActs 6:3 · 2 Chronicles 19:5-10 · Deuteronomy 1:13-17 · Deuteronomy 16:18-19 · 2 Samuel 23:3 · Isaiah 59:14-15
22Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
RelatedNumbers 11:17 · Numbers 36:1 · Numbers 27:2 · Deuteronomy 1:17-18 · Numbers 15:33 · Exodus 18:26
23If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”
RelatedExodus 18:18 · 1 Samuel 8:6-7 · 1 Samuel 8:22 · Genesis 21:10-12 · Genesis 18:33 · 2 Samuel 18:3
24So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
25Moses 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.
26They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
RelatedExodus 18:22 · 1 Kings 10:1 · Job 29:16 · Deuteronomy 17:8 · Exodus 18:14-15 · 1 Kings 3:16-28
27Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.