¹Now 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.

¹In slišal je Jetro, duhovnik madianski, tast Mojzesov, o vsem, kar je storil Bog Mojzesu in Izraelu, ljudstvu svojemu, da je GOSPOD odpeljal Izraela iz Egipta.

²Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,

²In vzame Jetro, tast Mojzesov, Ziforo, Mojzesovo ženo (potem ko jo je bil nazaj poslal),

³and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there.” for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.

³in njena dva sinova, katerih imeni sta: prvega Gerson, ker je rekel Mojzes: „Priseljenec sem v tuji zemlji“,

⁴The name of the other was Eliezer, Eliezer means “God is my helper.” for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”

⁴in drugega Eliezer, „kajti Bog očeta mojega mi je bil v pomoč in me je otel meča Faraonovega“;

⁵Jethro, 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.

⁵in pride Jetro, tast Mojzesov, ž njegovima sinoma in njegovo ženo k Mojzesu v puščavo, kjer je taboril pri gori Božji.

⁶He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”

⁶In sporoči Mojzesu: Jaz, tast tvoj Jetro, sem prišel k tebi in tvoja žena in ž njo dva sinova njena.

⁷Moses 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.

⁷In Mojzes pride naproti tastu svojemu, in prikloni se ter ga poljubi; nato vprašata drug drugega, če se jima dobro godi, in gresta v šator.

⁸Moses 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.

⁸In Mojzes pripoveduje tastu svojemu vse, kar je storil GOSPOD nad Faraonom in nad Egipčani zaradi Izraela, in o vseh težavah, ki so jih prebili na potovanju, in kako jih je reševal GOSPOD.

⁹Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

⁹In vzradostil se je Jetro ob vsej dobroti, ki jo je GOSPOD storil Izraelu, da ga je otel iz roke Egipčanov.

¹⁰Jethro 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.

¹⁰In reče Jetro: Hvaljen bodi GOSPOD, ki vas je otel iz roke Egipčanov in iz roke Faraonove, ki je otel to ljudstvo izpod pesti Egipčanov.

¹¹Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”

¹¹Zdaj vem, da je GOSPOD večji od vseh bogov: zakaj ravno v tem, s čimer so prevzetovali, se je povišal nad nje.

¹²Jethro, 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.

¹²In daroval je Jetro, tast Mojzesov, žgalne in klalne daritve Bogu; Aron pa in vsi starejšine Izraelovi so prišli, da bi jedli kruh s tastom Mojzesovim pred obličjem Božjim.

¹³It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

¹³In zgodi se zjutraj, da se je usedel Mojzes, da bi sodil ljudstvu; in ljudstvo je stalo pred Mojzesom od jutra do večera.

¹⁴When 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?”

¹⁴In videl je tast Mojzesov vse, kar dela z ljudstvom, in je rekel: Kakšno opravilo je to, ki ga imaš z ljudstvom? Zakaj sediš ti edini, vse ljudstvo pa stoji pred teboj od jutra do večera?

¹⁵Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

¹⁵In odgovori Mojzes tastu svojemu: Ljudstvo prihaja k meni posvetovat se z Bogom.

¹⁶When 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.”

¹⁶Ko imajo kako pravdo, pridejo k meni, in jaz razsojam med njimi in jim naznanjam Božja pravila in postave njegove.

¹⁷Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.

¹⁷In njegov tast mu reče: Ni dobro, kar delaš.

¹⁸You 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.

¹⁸Preveč se utrudiš in tudi to ljudstvo, ki je pri tebi; pretežavno je to delo zate; sam ga ne moreš vršiti.

¹⁹Listen 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.

¹⁹Zdaj pa čuj moj glas, hočem ti dati svet, in Bog bode s teboj: Bodi zastopnik ljudstva pred Bogom in donašaj njih zadeve pred Boga;

²⁰You 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.

²⁰in razjasnjuj jim pravila in postave in oznanjaj jim pot, po katerem naj hodijo, in delo, ki naj ga opravljajo.

²¹Moreover 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.

²¹Toda ozri se med vsem ljudstvom po vrlih možeh, bogaboječih, ki so vdani resnici, sovražni krivičnemu dobičku; in postavi jih za načelnike čez tisoč, načelnike čez sto, načelnike čez petdeset in za načelnike čez deset.

²²Let 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.

²²Oni naj sodijo ljudstvu vsak čas; in vse velike zadeve naj razgrnejo tebi, karkoli pa bo manjšega, naj sodijo sami: tako olajšaj sebi, in oni naj nosijo breme s teboj.

²³If 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.”

²³Če ta nasvet izpolniš in ti Bog to ukaže, boš mogel prestati, pa tudi to ljudstvo pride vse do kraja svojega v miru.

²⁴So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

²⁴In Mojzes je slušal glas svojega tasta ter storil vse, kar mu je rekel.

²⁵Moses 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.

²⁵In izbral je Mojzes vrlih mož izmed vseh Izraelcev in jih postavil za poglavarje nad ljudstvom: za načelnike čez tisoč, načelnike čez sto, načelnike čez petdeset in za načelnike čez deset.

²⁶They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

²⁶In sodili so ljudstvu vsakteri čas: težke stvari so razgrinjali Mojzesu, karkoli pa je bilo manjšega, so sodili sami.In Mojzes se je poslovil od svojega tasta, ta pa je šel v deželo svojo.

²⁷Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

²⁷In Mojzes se je poslovil od svojega tasta, ta pa je šel v deželo svojo.