New English Translation

Exodus 18:9-14 New English Translation (NET)

9. Jethro rejoiced because of all the good that the Lord had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.

10. Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians’ control!

11. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”

12. Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

13. On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

14. When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”