2. And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away,
3. and her two sons—the one whose name was Gershom, for he had said, “I have been an alien in a foreign land,”
4. and the one whose name was Eliezer, for “the God of my father was my help, and he delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
5. And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came and his sons and his wife to Moses, to the desert where he was camping there at the mountain of God.
6. And he said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her.”
7. And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed, and he kissed him, and they each asked about the other’s welfare, and they came into the tent.
8. And Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the hardship that had found them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
9. And Jethro rejoiced over all the good that Yahweh had done for Israel when he delivered them from the hand of Egypt.
10. And Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of Pharaoh—who has delivered the people from under the hand of Egypt.
11. Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, even in the matter where they the Egyptians dealt arrogantly against the Israelites.”
12. And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.
13. And the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood before Moses from the morning until the evening.
14. And the father-in-law of Moses saw all that he was doing for the people, and he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting alone and all the people are standing by you from morning until evening?”
15. And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to seek God.
16. When they have an issue, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make known God’s rule and his instructions.”
17. And the father-in-law of Moses said to him, “The thing that you are doing is not good.