When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, “What is this thing you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

“What you’re doing is not good,” Moses’ father-in-law said to him.

Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, “We’re all going to die!”

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out; and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor.