Exodus 18:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁴ When Moses’s father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, ‘What is this you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening? ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?

Common English Bible

¹⁴ When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What’s this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people are standing around you from morning until evening?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And when, of course, his kinsman saw all that he did among the people, he said: "What is this that you do among the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand before you, from morning, even until evening?"

Exodus 18:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate.  Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for settlement, Absalom called out to him and asked, ‘What city are you from? ’ If he replied, ‘Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,’

Exodus 18:13

The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.

Exodus 18:15

Moses replied to his father-in-law, ‘Because the people come to me to enquire of God.

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people at all times; they would bring the hard cases to Moses, but they would judge every minor case themselves.

Numbers 15:34

They placed him in custody because it had not been decided what should be done to him.

Judges 1:16

The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law,  had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms  , to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad.  They went to live among the people.