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Exodus 18:12-17 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

12. Then Yithro, the father-in-law of Mosheh, brought a burnt offering and other slaughterings unto Elohim. And Aharon came with all the elders of Yisra’ĕl to eat bread with the father-in-law of Mosheh before Elohim.

13. And it came to be, on the next day, that Mosheh sat to rightly rule the people. And the people stood before Mosheh from morning until evening.

14. And when the father-in-law of Mosheh saw all that he did for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit by yourself, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?”

15. And Mosheh said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to seek Elohim.

16. “When they have a matter, they come to me, and I rightly rule between one and another, and make known the laws of Elohim and His Torot.”

17. And the father-in-law of Mosheh said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

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