◄ Exodus 18:17 ►
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Good News Translation
Then Jethro said, "You are not doing this right.

New Revised Standard Version
Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

Contemporary English Version
Jethro replied: That isn't the best way to do it.

New American Bible
“What you are doing is not wise,” Moses’ father-in-law replied.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.

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Context
Jethro Advises Moses
…16And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws. 17But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.18Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.…
Cross References
Exodus 18:16
And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.

Exodus 18:18
Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.

Exodus 18:16
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