Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sunday School Lesson Jethro: Moses' Counselor and Father-in-Law by David McGee Page

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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.

Exodus 2:11-22
11) It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
12) He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13) He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
14) He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."
15) Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
16) Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father‘s flock.
17) The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18) When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"
19) They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."
20) He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
21) Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
22) She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."


Exodus 3:1-10
1) Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God‘s mountain, to Horeb.
2) The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3) Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4) When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am."
5) He said, "Don‘t come close. Take off your sandals from off your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."
6) Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
7) Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
8) I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
9) Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
10) Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."


Exodus 4:18-20
18) Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
19) Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."
20) Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God‘s rod in his hand.


Exodus 18:1-27
1) Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses‘ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
2) Jethro, Moses‘ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses‘ wife, after he had sent her away,
3) and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land".
4) The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father‘s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh‘s sword."
5) Jethro, Moses‘ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
6) He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.
7) Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
8) Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel‘s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
9) Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
10) Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
11) Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."
12) Jethro, Moses‘ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses‘ father-in-law before God.
13) It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
14) When Moses‘ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"
15) Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
16) When they have a matter, 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."
17) Moses‘ father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.
18) You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
19) Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
20) You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
21) Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
22) Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
23) If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."
24) So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
25) Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
26) They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
27) Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

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