Exodus 18

Exodus 18:6

To uncover their nakedness.

To lie with them, or to have carnal knowledge of them.

Exodus 18:8

It is thy father’s nakedness.

That nakedness is proper for none but thy father to uncover.

Exodus 18:12

They came to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

They came to feast with Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, in that place, where God declared his presence by the cloudy pillar.

Exodus 18:13

And the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.

The people stood before Moses, to call for justice in their several causes, and resolution in their doubts, &c. even all the day long.

Exodus 18:15

Because the people come unto me to enquire of God.

Because the people come to me in all weighty causes, to consult with God by me.

Exodus 18:18

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, &c.

Having one wife, thou shalt not take another wife besides her, during her life; that the emulation, which will thereupon arise, may not be a perpetual vexation to her, whom thou hast by lawful wedlock made one flesh with thee.

Exodus 18:19

Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God.

Do thou propound the doubts and demands of the people to God, as also their suits, in thy prayers; and report God’s answers back again to them.

Exodus 18:21

Thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech.

Thou shalt not give up any of thy sons or daughters, as a sacrifice to Molech, the idol of the Ammonites; either to pass between his two fires, as in way of consecration to him; or to be consumed by the fire of that idol, as a burnt offering to him.

Exodus 18:23

If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure.

If thou shalt do this thing, which yet I would not draw thee unto, without the good liking and approbation of God, then thou shalt be able to sustain this burden.