¹⁹ Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

⁵ Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

⁵ (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying,

¹⁹ They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

¹² He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."

² Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

⁹ Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

¹⁷ Then your handmaid said, Please let the word of my lord the king be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and Yahweh your God be with you.

⁹ Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.

¹ When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

²⁴ So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

¹⁵ Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

¹⁶ He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

¹² Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."