Quotes about Moses
Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
- Exodus 18:1
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
- Exodus 18:2
along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- Exodus 18:3
The other son was named Eliezer, for Moses had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
- Exodus 18:4
He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
- Exodus 18:6
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.
- Exodus 18:7
Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
- Exodus 18:8
Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.
- Exodus 18:12
The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.
- Exodus 18:13
When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”
- Exodus 18:14
“Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.
- Exodus 18:15
But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.
- Exodus 18:17