Exodus 18:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ When they have a dispute they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God and His laws.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ When a conflict arises between them, they come to me and I judge between the two of them. I also teach them God’s regulations and instructions.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And when any kind of dispute occurs among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to reveal the precepts of God and of his laws."

Exodus 18:16 Cross References

Exodus 24:14

To the elders he had said, “Wait here for us, until we come back to you. Look, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a dispute may go to them.”

1 Corinthians 6:1

When any of you has a grievance against another, do you dare to take it to court before the unrighteous, instead of taking it before the saints?

2 Samuel 15:3

Absalom would say, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no one deputed by the king to hear you.”

Deuteronomy 5:1

Moses convened all Israel and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall learn them and observe them diligently.

Deuteronomy 4:5

“See, just as the Lord my God has charged me, I now teach you statutes and ordinances for you to observe in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.

Matthew 28:20

and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Job 31:13

“If I have rejected the cause of my male or female slaves, when they brought a complaint against me,

1 Samuel 12:23

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Deuteronomy 6:1

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,

Numbers 15:35

Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him outside the camp.”

Leviticus 24:15

And speak to the Israelites, saying: Anyone who curses God shall incur guilt.

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty.

Exodus 2:13

When he went out the next day, he saw two Hebrews fighting, and he said to the one who was in the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow Hebrew?”

Exodus 18:17

Moses’s father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

2 Chronicles 19:10

whenever a case comes to you from your kindred who live in their cities concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or ordinances, then you shall instruct them, so that they may not incur guilt before the Lord and wrath may not come on you and your kindred. Do so, and you will not incur guilt.