18:8. Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.
18:9. And Jethro rejoiced for all the good things that the Lord had done to Israel, because he had delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians.
18:10. And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered his people out of the hand of Egypt.
18:11. Now I know, that the Lord is great above all gods; because they dealt proudly against them.
18:12. So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God.
18:13. And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by Moses from morning until night.
18:14. And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night?
18:15. And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God?
18:16. And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.
18:17. But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.