¹ Visi izraelitai keliavo toliau iš Sino dykumos sustodami, kai Viešpats įsakydavo. Jie pasistatė stovyklą efidime. Čia jie nerado geriamo vandens

² ir priekaištavo Mozei, sakydami: “Duok mums vandens atsigerti!” Mozė jiems atsakė: “Ko burnojate prieš mane? Kodėl gundote Viešpatį?”

³ Žmonės, ištroškę vandens, murmėjo prieš Mozę: “Kodėl mus išvedei iš Egipto, kad mus, mūsų vaikus ir gyvulius numarintum troškuliu?”

⁴ Tada Mozė šaukėsi Viešpaties: “Ką man daryti su šita tauta? Nedaug trūksta, kad jie užmuštų mane akmenimis”.

⁵ Viešpats atsakė Mozei: “Išeik prieš tautą kartu su Izraelio vyresniaisiais; laikyk rankoje lazdą, kuria sudavei į upę, ir eik.

⁶ Aš stovėsiu prieš tave ant uolos Horebe. Tu suduosi lazda į uolą, iš jos ištekės vanduo ir žmonės galės atsigerti”. Mozė taip ir padarė Izraelio vyresniųjų akyse.

⁷ Jis praminė tą vietą Masa ir Meriba dėl to, kad izraelitai priekaištavo ir gundė Viešpatį, sakydami: “Ar yra Viešpats tarp mūsų?”

⁸ Tada atėjo amalekiečiai ir kariavo su Izraeliu efidime.

⁹ Mozė įsakė Jozuei: “Pasirink vyrų ir eik kariauti prieš amalekiečius! ytoj aš atsistosiu ant kalvos viršūnės ir laikysiu Dievo lazdą rankoje”.

¹⁰ Jozuė padarė, kaip jam Mozė buvo įsakęs, ir kovojo prieš amalekiečius. Mozė, Aaronas ir Hūras užlipo ant kalvos viršūnės.

¹¹ Kol Mozė laikydavo pakėlęs savo rankas, laimėdavo izraelitai; kai tik jas nuleisdavo, laimėdavo amalekiečiai.

¹² Mozės rankos pavargo; jie tad paėmė akmenį, ir jis atsisėdo ant jo. Aaronas ir Hūras laikė jo rankas, vienas iš vienos, kitas iš kitos pusės; taip jo rankos buvo pakeltos iki saulės nusileidimo.

¹³ Tuo būdu Jozuė nugalėjo Amaleką ir jo tautą savo kardu.

¹⁴ Viešpats liepė Mozei: “Įrašyk tai į knygą atminimui ir perskaityk Jozuei girdint, kad Aš išnaikinsiu atminimą apie amalekiečius iš po dangaus”.

¹⁵ Mozė pastatė aukurą ir jį pavadino “Viešpats yra mano vėliava”.

¹⁶ Nes jis sakė: “Viešpats prisiekė ir Jis kariaus prieš amalekiečius per kartų kartas”.

¹ Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

² Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

³ and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".

⁴ The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."

⁵ Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.

⁶ He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."

⁷ Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

⁸ Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.

⁹ Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

¹⁰ Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, 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.

¹¹ Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."

¹² Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

¹³ It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

¹⁴ When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"

¹⁵ Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

¹⁶ When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

¹⁷ Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.

¹⁸ You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

¹⁹ Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

²⁰ You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

²¹ Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

²² Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.

²³ If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."

²⁴ So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

²⁵ Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

²⁶ They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

²⁷ Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.