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Exodus 18 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:1 - And Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people; that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2 - And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom -- for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:4 - -- and the name of the other, Eliezer -- For the God of my father has been my help, and has delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:5 - And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came to Moses with his sons and his wife into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mountain of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:6 - And he sent word to Moses: I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come to thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:7 - And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other after their welfare, and went into the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:8 - And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake; all the trouble that had befallen them on the way, and how Jehovah had delivered them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:9 - And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness that Jehovah had done to Israel; that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:10 - And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:11 - Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they acted haughtily he was above them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:12 - And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law in the presence of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:13 - And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood by Moses from the morning to the evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:14 - And Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did with the people, and said, What is this thing which thou art doing with the people? why dost thou sit alone, and all the people are standing by thee from morning to evening?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:15 - And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to enquire of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:16 - When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between one and another; and I make known to them the statutes of God, and his laws.

Jethro Counsels Moses

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:17 - And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou art doing is not good.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:18 - Thou wilt be quite exhausted, both thou and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee: thou canst not perform it alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:19 - Hearken now to my voice: I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee. Be thou for the people with God, and bring the matters before God;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:20 - and teach them the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:21 - But do thou provide among all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place them over them, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22 - that they may judge the people at all times; and it shall be that they shall bring to thee every great matter, and that they shall judge every small matter, and they shall lighten the task on thee, and they shall bear it with thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:23 - If thou do this thing, and God command thee so, thou wilt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:24 - And Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:25 - And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:26 - And they judged the people at all times: the hard matters they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:27 - And Moses sent away his father-in-law, and he departed into his land.
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In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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