Exodus 18:23 Parallel Translations

If God commands you, and you do this, you will be able to continue your work, and all these people will have their disagreements settled so that they can go home."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

ASV:

If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.

BBE:

If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.

DBY:

If thou do this thing, and God command thee so, thou wilt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

ERV:

If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.

JPS:

If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.'

WBS:

If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

WEB:

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."

YLT:

If thou dost this thing, and God hath commanded thee, then thou hast been able to stand, and all this people also goeth in unto its place in peace.'

Exodus 18:23 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 18:22 "Let them judge the people at all times; and let it be that every major dispute they will bring to you, but every minor dispute they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

Exodus 18:24 So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that he had said. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

18:13-27 Here is the great zeal and the toil of Moses as a magistrate. Having been employed to redeem Israel out of the house of bondage, he is a further type of Christ, that he is employed as a lawgiver and a judge among them. If the people were as quarrelsome one with another as they were with God, no doubt Moses had many causes brought before him. This business Moses was called to; it appears that he did it with great care and kindness. The meanest Israelite was welcome to bring his cause before him. Moses kept to his business from morning to night. Jethro thought it was too much for him to undertake alone; also it would make the administration of justice tiresome to the people. There may be over-doing even in well-doing. Wisdom is profitable to direct, that we may neither content ourselves with less than our duty, nor task ourselves beyond our strength. Jethro advised Moses to a better plan. Great men should not only study to be useful themselves, but contrive to make others useful. Care must be taken in the choice of the persons admitted into such a trust. They should be men of good sense, that understood business, and that would not be daunted by frowns or clamours, but abhorred the thought of a bribe. Men of piety and religion; such as fear God, who dare not to do a base thing, though they could do it secretly and securely. The fear of God will best fortify a man against temptations to injustice. Moses did not despise this advice. Those are not wise, who think themselves too wise to be counselled.

CONC:

Able Approval Command Commanded Commands Endure Gives Hast Home Peace Satisfied Stand Strain Tents Weariness Wilt

Able Approval Command Commanded Commands Endure Gives Home Peace Satisfied Stand Strain Weariness

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