10. Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord, Who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, Who has delivered the people [Israel] from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods. Yes, in the [very] thing in which they dealt proudly [He showed Himself infinitely superior to all their gods].
12. And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices [to offer] to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
13. Next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening.
14. When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, What is this that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?
15. Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
16. When they have a dispute 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 are doing is not good.
18. You will surely wear out both yourself and this people with you, for the thing is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it all by yourself.