Exodus 18:13
Good News Translation
The next day Moses was settling disputes among the people, and he was kept busy from morning till night.

New Revised Standard Version
The next day Moses sat as judge for the people, while the people stood around him from morning until evening.

Contemporary English Version
The next morning Moses sat down at the place where he decided legal cases for the people, and everyone crowded around him until evening.

New American Bible
The next day Moses sat in judgment for the people, while they stood around him from morning until evening.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by Moses from morning until night.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by Moses from morning until night.

Judges 5:10 Speak, you that ride upon fair asses, and you that sit in judgment, and walk in the way.

Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate of the city, and in the street they prepared me a chair?

Isaiah 16:5 And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and quickly rendering that which is just.

Joel 3:12 Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.

Matthew 23:2 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.

Romans 12:8 He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; he that ruleth, with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Romans 13:6 For therefore also you pay tribute. For they are the ministers of God, serving unto this purpose.

Context
Jethro Advises Moses
13And the next day Moses sat to judge the people, who stood by Moses from morning until night.14And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night?…
Cross References
Exodus 18:12
So Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, offered holocausts and sacrifices to God: and Aaron and all the ancients of Israel came, to eat bread with him before God.

Exodus 18:14
And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night?

Exodus 18:12
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