Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you will do this thing and God will command you, [then] you will be able to endure, and also each of the people will go to his home in peace."
New American Standard Bible
If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to
King James Version
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Holman Bible
If you do this, and God so directs you, you will be able to endure, and also all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”
International Standard Version
If you do this, and God so commands you, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will also go to their homes in peace."
A Conservative Version
If thou shall do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shall be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.
American Standard Version
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.
Amplified
If you will do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure [the responsibility], and all these people will also go [back] to their tents in peace.”
Bible in Basic English
If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.
Darby Translation
If thou do this thing, and God command thee so, thou wilt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Julia Smith Translation
If thou shalt do this word, and God commanded thee, and thou shalt be. able to stand, and all this people shall go to their place in peace.
King James 2000
If you shall do this thing, and God command you so, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Modern King James verseion
If you will do this thing, and God command you, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou shalt do this thing, then thou shalt be able to endure that which God chargeth thee with all, and all this people shall go to their places quietly."
NET Bible
If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied."
New Heart English Bible
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."
The Emphasized Bible
If, this thing, thou wilt do, and God shall command thee, then shalt thou be able to endure, - yea, moreover, all this people, shall go in, unto their dwellings, contented.
Webster
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
World English Bible
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."
Youngs Literal Translation
If thou dost this thing, and God hath commanded thee, then thou hast been able to stand, and all this people also goeth in unto its place in peace.'
Themes
Court » Superior, and inferior
Courts » Other courts » Superior, held by moses
journey of israel through the Desert » To mount sinai » Judges appointed
Government » Mosaic » Administrative and judicial system
moses » Institutes a system of government
Topics
Interlinear
Yakol
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 18:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jethro's Visit
22 And let them judge the people all the time, {and} every major issue they will bring to you, and every minor issue they will judge themselves. And [so] lighten [it] for yourself, and they will bear [it] with you. 23 If you will do this thing and God will command you, [then] you will be able to endure, and also each of the people will go to his home in peace." 24 And Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and he did all that he had said.
Cross References
Exodus 18:18
Surely you will wear out, both you and this people who [are] with you, because the thing [is too] {difficult} for you. You are not able to do it alone.
Genesis 18:33
Then Yahweh left, as he finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 21:10-12
Then she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac."
Genesis 30:25
And it happened [that] as soon as Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away that I may go to my place and my land.
Exodus 16:29
See, because Yahweh has given to you the Sabbath, therefore he is giving to you on the sixth day bread for two days. Stay, {each in his location}; let no one go from his place on the seventh day."
1 Samuel 8:6-7
But the matter {was displeasing to Samuel} when they said, "Give us a king to judge us," so Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
1 Samuel 8:22
Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and appoint a king for them." So Samuel spoke to the men of Israel, "Each of you go to his [own] town."
2 Samuel 18:3
Then the troops said, "You will not go out, for {if we must flee}, then {they will not care about us}; even if half of us die, {they will not care about us}, but now, you [are] like ten thousand of us. And so then, [it is] better for us that you be in the city to help."
2 Samuel 19:39
Then all the people crossed over the Jordan, and the king crossed and kissed Barzillai and blessed him; then he returned to his place.
2 Samuel 21:17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and he attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall not go out with us any longer to the battle, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel."
Acts 15:2
And [after] there was no little strife and debate by Paul and Barnabas against them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this issue.
Galatians 2:2
Now I went up [there] because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain.
Philippians 1:24-25
But to stay on in the flesh [is] more necessary for your sake.