Exodus 18:1-8

Jethro Visits Moses

1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses, heard of everything God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
2 After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro received her
3 and her two sons. One son was named Gershom,[a] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land”;
4 and the other was named Eliezer,[b] for he said, “My father’s God was my helper; he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and wife, came to him in the wilderness, where he was camped near the mountain of God.
6 Jethro had sent word to him, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
7 So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent.
8 Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the LORD had saved them.

Cross References 13

  • 1. S Exodus 2:18
  • 2. S Exodus 2:16; Exodus 3:1
  • 3. S Exodus 6:6
  • 4. S Exodus 2:21; Exodus 4:25
  • 5. S Exodus 4:20; Acts 7:29
  • 6. Exodus 2:22
  • 7. 1 Chronicles 23:15
  • 8. S Genesis 49:25; S Deuteronomy 33:29
  • 9. S Exodus 3:1
  • 10. S Genesis 17:3; S Genesis 43:28
  • 11. S Genesis 29:13
  • 12. Numbers 20:14; Nehemiah 9:32
  • 13. Exodus 15:6,16; Psalms 81:7

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. "Gershom" sounds like the Hebrew for "a foreigner there."
  • [b]. "Eliezer" means "my God is helper."
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