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Ἤκουσεν δὲ ’1οθὸρ ὁ ἱερεὺς Μαδιὰμ ὁ γαμβρὸς Μωυσῆ πάντα ὅσα ἐποίησεν κύριος Ἰσραὴλ τῷ ἑαυτοῦ λαῷ· ἐξήγαγεν γὰρ κύριος
τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου.

ἔλαβεν δὲ Ἰοθὸρ ὁ γαμβρὸς Μωυσῆ
Σεπφώραν τὴν γυναῖκα Μωυσῆ, μετὰ τὴν ἄφεσιν αὐτῆς,

καὶ δύο υἱοὺς αὐτῆς· ὄνομα τῷ ἑνὶ αὐτῶν Γηρσάμ, λέγων Ηάροικος
ἐν γῇ ἀλλοτρίᾳ·

καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ δευτέρου Ἐλιέζερ, λέγων Ὁ γὰρ θεὸς τοῦ πατρός μου βοηθός μου, καὶ ἐξείλατό με ἐκ χειρὸς Φαραώ.

καὶ ἐξῆλθεν Ἰοθὸρ ὁ γαμβρὸς Μωυσῆ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ πρὸς
Μωυσῆν εἰς τὴν ἔρημον, οὗ παρενέβαλεν ἐπ’ ὄρους τοῦ θεοῦ.

ἀνηγγέλη δὲ Μωυσεῖ λέγοντες Ἴδου ὁ γαμβρός σου Ἰοθὸρ παραγίνεται
πρὸς σέ, καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ οἱ δύο υἱοί σου μετ’ αὐτοῦ.

ἐξῆλθεν δὲ Μωυσῆς εἰς συνάντησιν τῷ γαμβρῷ, καὶ προσεκύνησεν αὐτῷ καὶ ἐφίλησεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἠσπάσαντο ἀλλήλους· καὶ εἰσήγαγεν αὐτὸν
εῖς τὴν σκηνήν.

καὶ διηγήσατο Μωσῆς τῷ γαμβρῷ πάντα ὅσα ἐποίησεν κύριος τῷ Φαραὼ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις ἕνεκεν τοῦ καὶ πάντα τὸν μόχθον τὸν γενόμενον αὐτοῖς ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ, ὅτι ἐξείλατο αὐτοὺς κύριος ἐκ χειρὸς Φαραὼ καὶ ἐκ χειρὸς τῶν ¹² Αἰγυπτίων.

ἐξέστη δὲ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς οἷς ἐποίησεν
αὐτοῖς κύριος, ὅτι ἐξείλατο αὐτοὺς ἐκ χειρὸς Αἰγυπτίων καὶ ἐκ χειρὸς Φαραώ.

καὶ εἶπεν Ιοθόρ Εὐλογητὸς Κύριος, ὅτι ἐξείλατο αὐτοὺς
ἐκ χειρὸς Αἰγυπτίων καὶ ἐκ χειρὸς Φαραώ·

νῦν ἔγνων ὅτι μέγας
παρὰ παρὰ πάντας τοὺς θεούς, ἕνεκεν τούτου ὅτι ἐπέθεντο αὐτοῖς.

καὶ ἔλαβεν ’1οθὸρ ὁ γαμβρὸς Μωυσῆ ὁλοκαυτώματα καὶ θυσίας τῷ
θεῷ· παρεγένετο δὲ Ἀαρὼν καὶ πάντες οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Ἰσραὴλ συνΦαγεῖν ἄρτον μετὰ τοῦ γαμβροῦ Μωυσῆ ἐναντίον τοῦ θεοῦ. Καὶ

ἐγένετο μετὰ τὴν ἐπαύριον συνεκάθισεν μυσῆς κρίνειν τὸν λαόν· παρειστήκει δὲ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς Mcovo^fl ἀπὸ πρωίθεν ἕως δείλης.

καὶ ἰδὼν
Ἰοθὸρ πάντα ὅσα ποιεῖ τῷ λαῷ λέγει Ti τοῦτο ὃ σὺ ποιεῖς τῷ λαῷ; διὰ τί σὺ κάθησαι μόνος, πᾶς δὲ ὁ λαὸς παρέστηκέν σοι ἀπὸ πρωί- πρωίθεν ἕως δείλης;

καὶ λέγει Μωυσῆς τῷ γαμβρῷ ὅτι παραγίνεται
πρὸς μὲ ὁ λαὸς ἐκζητῆσαι κρίσιν παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ·

ὅταν γὰρ γένηται
αὐτοῖς ἀντιλογία καὶ ἔλθωσι πρὸς μέ, διακρίνω ἕκαστον, καὶ συμβι- βάζω αὐτοὺς τὰ προστάγματα τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τὸν νόμον αὐτοῦ.

εἶπεν
δὲ ὁ γαμβρὸς Μωυσῆ πρὸς αὐτόν

οὐκ ὀρθῶς σὺ ποιεῖς τὸ ῥῆμα
τοῦτο· 18 φθορᾷ καταφθαρήσῃ ἀνυπομονήτῳ καὶ σὺ καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ὅς ἐστιν μετὰ σοῦ · βαρύ σοι τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο, οὐ δυνήσῃ ποιεῖν μόνος.

νῦν οὖν ἄκουσόν μου, καὶ συμβουλεύσω σοι, καὶ ἔσται
ὁ θεὸς μετὰ σοῦ. γίνου σὺ τῷ λαῷ τὰ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ ἀνοίσεις τοὺς λόγους αὐτῶν πρὸς τὸν θεόν·

καὶ διαμαρτυρῇ αὐτοῖς τὰ
προστάγματα τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τὸν νόμον αὐτοῦ, καὶ σημανεῖς αὐτοῖς τὰς ὁδοὺς ἐν αἷς πορεύσονται ἐν αὐταῖς, καὶ τὰ ἔργα ἃ ποιήσουσιν.

καὶ σὺ σεαυτῷ σκέψαι ἀπὸ παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ ἄνδρας δυνατούς,
θεοσεβεῖς, ἄνδρας δικαίους, μισοῦντας ὑπερηφανίαν, καὶ καταστήσεις ἐπ’ αὐτῶν χιλιάρχους καὶ ἑκατοντάρχους καὶ πεντηκοντάρχους καὶ δεδαδάρχους,

καὶ κρινοῦσιν τὸν λαὸν πᾶσαν ὥραν· τὸ δὲ ῥῆμα τὸ
ὑπέρογκον ἀνοίσουσιν ἐπὶ σέ, τὰ δὲ βραχέα τῶν κριμάτων κρινοῦσιν αὐτοί, καὶ κουφιοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ καὶ συναντιλήμψονταί σοι.

ἐὰν
³ τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦτο ποιήσῃς, κατισχύσει σε ὁ θεὸς καὶ δυνήσῃ παραστῆναι, ⁴ καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς οὗτος εἰς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ τόπον μετ’ εἰρήνης ἥξει.

ἤκουσεν δέ Μωυσῆς τῆς φωνῆς τοῦ γαμβροῦ, καὶ ἐποίησεν ὅσα
αὐτῷ εἶπεν.

καὶ ἐπέλεξεν Μωσῆς ἄνδρας δυνατοὺς ἀπὸ παντὸς Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτοὺς ἐπ’ αὐτῶν χιλιάρχους καὶ ἑκατοντάρχους
καὶ πεντηκοντάρχους καὶ δεκαδάρχους,

καί ἐκρίνοσαν τὸν λαὸν πᾶσαν ὥραν· πᾶν δὲ ῥῆμα ὑπέρογκον ἀνεφέροσαν ἐπὶ Μωυσῆν. πᾶν δὲ ῥῆμα ἐλαφρὸν ἐκκρίνοσαν αὐτοί.

ἐξαπέστειλεν δὲ δὲ Μωυσῆς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ γαμβρόν, καὶ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ.

Exodus. Septuaginta. ed. Henry Barclay Swete. Germany. 2015.

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Ἔξοδος (Greek) (Septuaginta. The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint. Volume 1: Genesis-IV Kings. Swete, Henry Barclay, editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901.)

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Exodus Perseus (World English Bible. Revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. Rainbow Missions, Inc., 2000-2024.) — 18 focus

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 .

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,

and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.

The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.

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.

He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.

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.

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.

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?

Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

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.

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, The thing that you do is not good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

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.

They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

Notes on the current edition

Exodus

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2. B

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4. B

Septuaginta Exodus 18

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