This incident may very well be allowed to have happened as it is placed here, before the giving of the law, and not, as some place it, in connection with what is recorded, Num. 10:11 , 29 Sacrifices were offered before; in these mentioned here (Exod. 18:12) it is observable that Jethro is said to take them, not Aaron . And as to Jethro’s advising Moses to constitute judges under him, though it is ...