15Moses answered him, "Because the people come to me to seek God's will.
15Moses answered him, "Because the people come to me to seek God's will.
12 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other 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.
13 The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening.
14 When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, "What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?"
15 Moses answered him, "Because the people come to me to seek God's will.
16 Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God's decrees and laws."
17 Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good.
18:15And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:
18:15And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God.
18:15And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God:
18:15And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to enquire of God.
18:15And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God:
18:15And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God:
18:15Moses said to his father-in-law, |Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
18:15And Moses saith to his father-in-law, 'Because the people come unto me to seek God;
18:15And Moses said to his father in law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God: