Thursday, October 16, 2008

Exodus 18

This passage was both very cool and somewhat confusing. I really like how Moses' father-in-law comes alongside him and offers advice, which Moses takes despite the fact that he himself is over 80 years old. Delegation of duties here is shown to be a good idea, and it illustrates the fact that as humans we should be careful yo put ourselves under too much stress.

The confusing part, though, is that it seems that Moses' wife and children were not with him in Egypt. Here his father-in-law brings them to him, but I thought for sure that they took the journey with Moses and Aaron to Egypt after the burning bush incident. I may have to go back and re-read that to see if I missed something.

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