Exodus 18:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ When Moses’s 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 do you sit alone, 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?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night?

Exodus 18:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the road into the gate, and when anyone brought a suit before the king for judgment, Absalom would call out and say, “From what city are you?” When the person said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”

Exodus 18:13

The next day Moses sat as judge for the people, while the people stood around him from morning until evening.

Exodus 18:15

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

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves.

Numbers 15:34

They put him in custody because it was not clear what should be done to him.

Judges 1:16

The descendants of Hobab the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad. Then they went and settled with the Amalekites.