Why Moses Said the People Come to Seek God

Mekhilta DeRabbi Shimon Ben Yochai 18:15

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"And Moses said to his father-in-law: Because the people come to me to seek God" (Exodus 18:15). Concerning this matter Judah, a man of Kfar Ani, asked Rabban Gamliel: What did Moses see, that he said "because the people come to me to seek God"? He said to him: And if not, what should he have said? Said the other: "Because the people come to me to seek as the word of God." He said to him: You have spoken well.

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