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{"id":639,"verse_id":"EXO.18.1","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":1,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"18.1","text":"This chapter forms the transition to the Law. There has been the deliverance, the testing passages, the provision in the wilderness, and the warfare. Any God who can do all this for his people deserves their allegiance. In chap. the Lawgiver is giving advice, using laws and rulings, but then he is given advice to organize the elders to assist. Thus, when the Law is fully revealed, a system will be in place to administer it. The point of the passage is that a great leader humbly accepts advice from other godly believers to delegate responsibility. He does not try to do it all himself; God does not want one individual to do it all. The chapter has three parts: vv. 1-12 tell how Jethro heard and came and worshiped and blessed; vv. 13-23 have the advice of Jethro, and then vv. 24-27 tell how Moses implemented the plan and Jethro went home. See further E. J. Runions, “Exodus Motifs in 1 Samuel 7 and 8 ,” EvQ 52 (1980): 130-31; and also see for another idea T. C. Butler, “An Anti-Moses Tradition,” JSOT 12 (1979): 9-15.","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A1/1"}
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{"id":640,"verse_id":"EXO.18.1","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":1,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"18.1","text":"This is an important report that Jethro has heard, for the claim of God that he brought Israel out of bondage in Egypt will be the foundation of the covenant stipulations ().","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A1/3"}
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{"id":641,"verse_id":"EXO.18.4","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":4,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"18.4","text":"The verb “delivered” is an important motif in this chapter (see its use in vv. 8, 9, and 10 with reference to Pharaoh).","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A4/3"}
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{"id":642,"verse_id":"EXO.18.5","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":5,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"18.5","text":"The mountain of God is Horeb, and so the desert here must be the Sinai desert by it. But chap. suggests that they left Rephidim to go the 24 miles to Sinai. It may be that this chapter fits in chronologically after the move to Sinai, but was placed here thematically. W. C. Kaiser defends the present location of the story by responding to other reasons for the change given by Lightfoot, but does not deal with the travel locations (W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:411).","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A5/3"}
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{"id":643,"verse_id":"EXO.18.6","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":6,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"18.6","text":"This verse may seem out of place, since the report has already been given that they came to the desert. It begins to provide details of the event that the previous verse summarizes. The announcement in verse 6 may have come in advance by means of a messenger or at the time of arrival, either of which would fit with the attention to formal greetings in verse 7 . This would suit a meeting between two important men; the status of Moses has changed. The LXX solves the problem by taking the pronoun “I” as the particle “behold” and reads it this way: “one said to Moses, ‘Behold, your father-in-law has come….’”","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A6/1"}
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{"id":644,"verse_id":"EXO.18.7","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":7,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"1","reference":"18.7","text":"This is more than polite oriental custom. Jethro was Moses’ benefactor, father-in-law, and a priest. He paid much respect to him. Now he could invite Jethro into his home (see B. Jacob, Exodus , 496).","source_note_position":1,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A7/1"}
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{"id":645,"verse_id":"EXO.18.12","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":12,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"18.12","text":"Jethro brought offerings as if he were the one who had been delivered. The “burnt offering” is singular, to honor God first. The other sacrifices were intended for the invited guests to eat (a forerunner of the peace offering). See B. Jacob, Exodus , 498.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A12/2"}
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{"id":646,"verse_id":"EXO.18.13","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":13,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"18.13","text":"This is a simple summary of the function of Moses on this particular day. He did not necessarily do this every day, but it was time now to do it. The people would come to solve their difficulties or to hear instruction from Moses on decisions to be made. The tradition of “sitting in Moses’ seat” is drawn from this passage.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A13/2"}
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{"id":647,"verse_id":"EXO.18.14","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":14,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"18.14","text":"This question, “what are you doing for the people,” is qualified by the next question. Sitting alone all day and the people standing around all day showed that Moses was exhibiting too much care for the people – he could not do this.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A14/2"}
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{"id":648,"verse_id":"EXO.18.21","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":21,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"7","reference":"18.21","text":"It is not clear how this structure would work in a judicial setting. The language of “captains of thousands,” etc., is used more for military ranks. There must have been more detailed instruction involved here, for each Israelite would have come under four leaders with this arrangement, and perhaps difficult cases would be sent to the next level. But since the task of these men would also involve instruction and guidance, the breakdown would be very useful. Deut 1:9, 13 suggest that the choice of these people was not simply Moses’ alone.","source_note_position":7,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A21/7"}
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{"id":649,"verse_id":"EXO.18.27","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"EXO","chapter":18,"verse":27,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"4","reference":"18.27","text":"This chapter makes an excellent message on spiritual leadership of the people of God. Spiritually responsible people are to be selected to help in the work of the ministry (teaching, deciding cases, meeting needs), so that there will be peace, and so that leaders will not be exhausted. Probably capable people are more ready to do that than leaders are ready to relinquish control. But leaders have to be willing to take the risk, to entrust the task to others. Here Moses is the model of humility, receiving correction and counsel from Jethro. And Jethro is the ideal adviser, for he has no intention of remaining there to run the operation.","source_note_position":4,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Exodus%2018%3A27/4"}
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