2 Mose 18:26

Lutherbibel

daß sie das Volk allezeit richteten; was aber schwere Sachen wären, zu Mose brächten, und die kleinen Sachen selber richteten.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
damit sie das Volk allezeit richteten; schwere Sachen sollten sie vor Mose bringen, die kleinen Sachen aber selber richten.

Elberfelder Bibel (1905)
Und sie richteten das Volk zu aller Zeit: die schwierige Sache brachten sie vor Mose, und jede kleine Sache richteten sie selbst.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

at all: Exodus 18:14, Exodus 18:22

the hard causes: Exodus 18:15, Exodus 18:22, Deuteronomy 17:8, 1 Kings 3:16-28, 1 Kings 10:1, Job 29:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:14 - if any man Leviticus 24:11 - brought him Numbers 9:6 - they came Numbers 25:5 - judges Deuteronomy 1:15 - I took Deuteronomy 1:17 - the cause Deuteronomy 16:18 - Judges Joshua 24:1 - called Judges 4:5 - came up 2 Samuel 15:2 - came 2 Chronicles 19:7 - let the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they judged the people at all seasons,.... Any day in the week, or any time in the day, whenever there was any occasion for them, and cases were brought before them:

the hard cases they brought unto Moses; that is, the judges brought them to Moses when such came before them which were too hard for them, it was difficult to them to determine rightly about them, then they brought them to be heard and decided by him; for the judges, and not the people, best knew when a case was hard or easy to determine:

but every small matter they judged themselves; and gave it as they saw was most agreeable to justice and equity, and did not trouble Moses with it; by which means he was eased of a great deal of business and fatigue, which was Jethro's view in giving the advice he did.