Exodus 18:6-16

6 He had sent a message ahead to Moses: "I, your father-in-law, am coming to you with your wife and two sons."
7 Moses went out to welcome his father-in-law. He bowed to him and kissed him. Each asked the other how things had been with him. Then they went into the tent.
8 Moses told his father-in-law the story of all that God had done to Pharaoh and Egypt in helping Israel, all the trouble they had experienced on the journey, and how God had delivered them.
9 Jethro was delighted in all the good that God had done for Israel in delivering them from Egyptian oppression.
10 Jethro said, "Blessed be God who has delivered you from the power of Egypt and Pharaoh, who has delivered his people from the oppression of Egypt.
11 Now I know that God is greater than all gods because he's done this to all those who treated Israel arrogantly."
12 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a Whole-Burnt-Offering and sacrifices to God. And Aaron, along with all the elders of Israel, came and ate the meal with Moses' father-in-law in the presence of God.
13 The next day Moses took his place to judge the people. People were standing before him all day long, from morning to night.
14 When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, "What's going on here? Why are you doing all this, and all by yourself, letting everybody line up before you from morning to night?"
15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me with questions about God.
16 When something comes up, they come to me. I judge between a man and his neighbor and teach them God's laws and instructions."
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.