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

²¹ The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

⁵ Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel ^(A)take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.

² And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: ^(A)“We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

¹⁹ Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall ^(A)represent the people before God and ^(B)bring their cases to God,

² Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her home, ³ along with her ^(A)two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (^(B)for he said, ^(C)“I have been a sojourner^[a] in a foreign land”), ⁴ and the name of the other, Eliezer^[b] (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”). ⁵ Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the ^(D)mountain of God.