Exodus 18:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 2:21 : 21 And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
  • Exod 4:25-26 : 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me. 26 So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.

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  • Exod 18:1
    83%

    1 Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.

  • Exod 18:3-9
    7 verses
    81%

    3 And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land:

    4 And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh:

    5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God.

    6 And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons.

    7 And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent.

    8 And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.

    9 And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to Israel, freeing them from the power of the Egyptians.

  • Exod 2:20-22
    3 verses
    80%

    20 And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.

    21 And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

    22 And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.

  • Exod 18:27
    78%

    27 And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

  • Exod 4:18
    76%

    18 And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

  • Exod 4:20
    74%

    20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand.

  • Exod 3:1
    74%

    1 Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Exod 18:24
    74%

    24 So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.

  • Exod 18:12
    74%

    12 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God.

  • Exod 4:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.

    26 So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.

  • Exod 18:17
    72%

    17 And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.

  • Exod 18:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening?

    15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:

  • Num 25:6
    71%

    6 Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

  • Exod 2:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

    16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

  • Exod 2:1
    69%

    1 Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

  • Num 25:16
    68%

    16 Then the Lord said to Moses,