Exodus 18:15

WEB

¹⁵Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

KJV

¹⁵And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:

BSB

¹⁵“Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.

FBV

¹⁵“Because the people come to me to ask God for his decision,” Moses replied.

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Extra References

Numbers 15:34

³⁴They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Numbers 27:5

⁵Moses brought their cause before the LORD.

¹²They put him in custody until the LORD’s will should be declared to them. ¹³The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴“Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

Exodus 18:19-20

¹⁹Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God. ²⁰You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Numbers 9:6

⁶There were certain men who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

Numbers 9:8

⁸Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”

Deuteronomy 17:8-13

⁸If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses. ⁹You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict. ¹⁰You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which the LORD chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you. ¹¹According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left. ¹²The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel. ¹³All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.