Exodus 18:16
Good News Translation
When two people have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide which one of them is right, and I tell them God's commands and laws."

New Revised Standard Version
When they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.”

Contemporary English Version
They bring their complaints to me, and I make decisions on the basis of God's laws."

New American Bible
Whenever they have a disagreement, they come to me to have me settle the matter between them and make known to them God’s statutes and instructions.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

a matter

Exodus 23:7 Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

Exodus 24:14 Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.

Deuteronomy 17:8-12 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose. . . .

2 Samuel 15:3 And Absalom answered him: Thy words seem to me good and just. But there is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absalom said:

Job 31:13 If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:

Acts 18:14,15 And when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If it were some matter of injustice or an heinous deed, O Jews, I should with reason bear with you. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust: and not before the saints?

one and another.

Exodus 2:13 And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?

make

Leviticus 24:15 And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: The man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin:

Numbers 15:35 And the Lord said to Moses: Let that man die, let all the multitude stone him without the camp.

Numbers 27:6 The daughters of Salphaad demand a just thing: Give them a possession among their father's kindred, and let them succeed him in his inheritance.

Numbers 36:6-9 And this is the law promulgated by the Lord touching the daughters of Salphaad: Let them marry to whom they will, only so that it be to men of their own tribe. . . .

Deuteronomy 4:5 You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess:

Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn them, and fulfil them in work.

Deuteronomy 6:1 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it:

1 Samuel 12:23 And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

1 Thessalonians 4:1,2 For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more. . . .

Context
Jethro Advises Moses
15And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God? 16And 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.17But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.…
Cross References
Exodus 18:17
But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.

Exodus 24:14
Said to the ancients: Wait ye here till we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you: if any question shall arise, you shall refer it to them.

Exodus 18:15
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