Now when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?”

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

Moses’ father-in-law then said to him, “The thing that you are doing is not good.

So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything that he had said.

Then Moses said goodbye to his father-in-law, and Jethro went his way to his own land.

You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged on the land which the Lord your God gives you.

“And one who strikes his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.

“And one who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.

and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

who keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

and you shall anoint them just as you have anointed their father, so that they may serve as priests to Me; and their anointing will qualify them for a permanent priesthood throughout their generations.”