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Chapter 18, When Jethro the priest of
Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all

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that God had done for Moses, and for
Israel his people, and that the Lord had

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brought Israel out of Egypt.

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Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law,
took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had

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sent her back, and her two sons,
of which the name of the one was Gershom.

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For he said, I have been an alien in a
strange land.

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And the name of the other was Eliezer,
for the God of my father, said he,

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was mine help, and delivered me from the
sword of Pharaoh.

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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law,
came with his sons and his wife unto Moses

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into the wilderness, where he encamped at
the mount of God.

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And he said unto Moses, I, thy
father-in-law Jethro, am come unto thee,

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and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

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And Moses went out to meet his
father-in-law, and did obeisance,

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and kissed him.

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And they asked each other of their
welfare, and they came into the tent.

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And Moses told his father-in-law all that
the Lord had done to Pharaoh, and to the

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Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the
travail that had come upon them by the

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way, and how the Lord delivered them.

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And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness
which the Lord had done to Israel,

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whom he had delivered out of the hand of
the Egyptians.

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And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord,
who hath delivered you out of the hand of

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the Egyptians, and out of the hand of
Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people

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from under the hand of the Egyptians.

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Now I know that the Lord is greater than
all gods.

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For in the thing wherein they dealt
proudly, he was above them.

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And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law,
took a burnt offering and sacrifices for

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God.

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And Aaron came, and all the elders of
Israel, to eat bread with Moses'

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father-in-law before God.

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And it came to pass on the morrow,
that Moses sat to judge the people.

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And the people stood by Moses from the
morning unto the evening.

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And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that
he did to the people, he said,

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What is this thing that thou doest to the
people?

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Why sittest thou thyself alone,
and all the people stand by thee from

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morning unto evening?

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And Moses said unto his father-in-law,
Because the people come unto me to inquire

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of God.

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When they have a matter, they come unto
me, and I judge between one and another,

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and I do make them know the statutes of
God, and his laws.

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And Moses' father-in-law said unto him,
The thing that thou doest is not good.

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Thou wilt surely wear away both thou and
this people that is with thee.

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For this thing is too heavy for thee.

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Thou art not able to perform thyself
alone.

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Hearken now unto my voice.

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I will give thee counsel, and God shall be
with thee.

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Be thou for the people to Godward,
that thou mayest bring the causes unto

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God.

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And thou shalt teach them ordinances,
and laws, and thou shalt show them the way

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wherein they must walk, and the work they
must do.

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Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all
the people able men, such as fear God,

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men of truth, hating covetousness,
and place such over them to be rulers of

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thousands, and rulers of hundreds,
rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

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And let them judge the people at all
seasons.

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And it shall be that every great matter
they shall bring unto thee, but every

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small matter they shall judge.

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So shall it be easier for thyself,
and they shall bear the burden with thee.

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If thou shalt do this thing, and God
command thee so, then thou shalt be able

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to endure, and all this people shall also
go to their place in peace.

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So Moses hearkened to the voice of his
father-in-law, and did all that he had

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said.

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And Moses chose able men out of all
Israel, and made them heads over the

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people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of

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tens.

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And they judged the people at all seasons,
the hard causes they brought unto Moses,

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but every small matter they judged
themselves.

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