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1 Іоѕоръ, священникъ Мадіамскій, тесть Моисеевъ, услышалъ все, что сдјлалъ Богъ для Моисея, и для Израиля, народа Своего, когда вывелъ Іегова Израиля изъ Египта.

2 И взялъ Іоѕоръ, тесть Моисеевъ, Циппору жену Моисееву, предъ тјмъ отпущенную,

3 и двухъ сыновъ ея, изъ коихъ одному имя Герсомъ, потому что говорилъ Моисей: я пришлецъ въ чужой землј;

4 а другому имя Еліезеръ: потому что (говорилъ онъ) Богъ отца моего былъ мнј помощникомъ, и избавилъ меня отъ меча Фараонова.

5 И пришелъ Іоѕоръ, тесть Моисея, съ сыновьями его и женою его къ Моисею въ пустыню, гдј онъ стоялъ станомъ у горы Божіей.

6 И далъ знать Моисею: я тесть твой Іоѕоръ иду къ тебј, и жена твоя, и два сына ея съ нею.

7 Моисей вышелъ навстрјчу тестю своему, и поклонился, и цјловалъ его: и спросили другъ друга о здравіи, и вошли въ шатеръ.

8 И разсказалъ Моисей тестю своему о всемъ, что сдјлалъ Іегова съ Фараономъ и съ Египтянами за Израиля и о всјхъ трудностяхъ, какія встрјтили ихъ на пути, и какъ избавилъ ихъ Іегова.

9 Іоѕоръ радовался о всјхъ благодјяніахъ, которыя Іегова явилъ Израилю, когда избавилъ его изъ руки Египтянъ.

10 И сказалъ Іоѕоръ: Благословенъ Іегова, избавившій васъ изъ руки Египтянъ и изъ руки Фараона, Избавившій народъ сей изъ-подъ власти Египтянъ.

11 Нынј узналъ я, что Іегова великъ паче всјхъ боговъ, Въ томъ самомъ, чјмъ они превозносились надъ ними.

12 И принесъ Іоѕоръ, тесть Моисеевъ, всесожженіе и жертвы Богу: и пришелъ Ааронъ и всј старјйшины Израилевы јсть хлјба съ тестемъ Моисеевымъ предъ Богомъ.

13 На другой день сјлъ Моисей судить народъ; и народъ стоялъ предъ Моисеемъ отъ утра до вечера.

14 Тесть Моисеевъ видјлъ все, что онъ дјлалъ съ народомъ, и сказалъ: что это такое ты дјлаешь съ народомъ? для чего ты сидишь одинъ, а весь народъ стоитъ предъ тобою отъ утра до вечера?

15 Моисей сказалъ тестю своему: народъ приходитъ ко мнј вопрошать Бога.

16 Когда случаетея у нихъ дјло, они приходятъ ко мнј, я сужу того и другаго, и объявляю постановленія Божіи и законы Его.

17 Но тесть Моисеевъ сказалъ ему: не хорошо ты это дјлаешь.

18 Ты измучишь и себя и народъ сей, который съ тобою; ибо дјло сіе выше силъ твоихъ: ты не можешь одинъ исправлять его.

19 Итакъ послушай, что я скажу, я дамъ тебј совјтъ, и да будетъ Богъ съ тобою: будь ты посредникомъ отъ народа предъ Богомъ, и представляй Богу дјла.

20 И научай его постановленіямъ и законамъ, указывай ему путь, по коему онъ, долженъ идти, и дјла, какія онъ долженъ дјлать.

21 Ты же усмотри изъ всего народа людей способныхъ, боящихся Бога, людей правдивыхъ, ненавидящихъ корыстъ, и поставь надъ нимъ тысяченачальниками, стоначальниками, патидесятиначальниками, и десятиначальниками.

22 Пусть они судятъ народъ во всякое время, и о всякомъ важномъ дјлј доносятъ тебј, а всј малыя дјла судятъ сами: такимъ образомъ облегчи себя, и они пусть несутъ съ тобою бремя.

23 Если ты такъ поступишь, и Богъ повелитъ тебј: то ты возможешь устоять, и весь народъ сей съ миромъ пойдетъ въ свое мјсто.

24 Моисей послушалъ совјта тестя своего и сдјлалъ все, что онъ говорилъ.

25 И выбралъ Моисей изъ всего Израиля способныхъ людей, и поставилъ ихъ начальниками народа, тысяченачальниками, стоначальниками, пітидесятиначальниками, и десятиначальниками.

26 И они судили народъ во всякое время; о дјлахъ трудныхъ доносили Моисею; а всј малыя дјла судили сами.

27 Потомъ отпустилъ Моисей тестя своего, и онъ пошелъ въ землю свою,

   

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8646. 'That Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt' means that they had been delivered by the Lord from molestations. This is clear from the meaning of 'bringing out' as delivering; from the representation of 'Israel' as those belonging to the spiritual kingdom, as immediately above in 8645; and from the meaning of 'Egypt' as molestations by falsities, dealt with in 7278. The reason why 'Egypt' means molestations is that 'the Egyptians' and 'Pharaoh' mean those who in the next life used falsities to molest those who belonged to the spiritual Church, 7097, 7107, 7110, 7126, 7142, 7220, 7228, 7317, 8148.

  
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Exodus 18

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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.