Löydetty 3036 Tulokset: Chosen People

• I know now that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, for he delivered his people when they were being oppressed." (Exodus 18, 11)

• The next day Moses took his seat to administer justice for the people who stood around him from morning till night. (Exodus 18, 13)

• His father-in-law, seeing all the work of Moses for the people, said to him, "What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit and judge while all the people stand around you from morning till night?" (Exodus 18, 14)

• Moses answered, "It is the people who come to me to know God's will. (Exodus 18, 15)

• You and your people will wear yourselves out, for the work is too heavy and you cannot do it alone. (Exodus 18, 18)

• Now listen to the advice I am going to give you and God be with you. You will be the people's representative before God and bring their cases to him. (Exodus 18, 19)

• But choose among the people, capable, God-fearing men, men of truth who hate a bribe, and appoint them as leaders for groups of a thousand, a hundred, fifty and ten. (Exodus 18, 21)

• If you do this, God will guide you and you will be able to cope with this duty; and all these people will reach their place in peace." (Exodus 18, 23)

• but you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." And he added, "This is what you are to say to the people of Israel." (Exodus 19, 6)

• So Moses went and summoned all the elders of the people and related to them all that Yahweh had commanded him to say. (Exodus 19, 7)

• All the people responded with one voice, "All that Yahweh has said, we will do." Moses then brought back to Yahweh the people's response. (Exodus 19, 8)

• Yahweh spoke to Moses, "I am going to come to you in a dense cloud so that the people may hear me speaking with you and trust you always." Then Moses related to Yahweh what the people had said. (Exodus 19, 9)