Exodus 18:27

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

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  • Num 10:29-30 : 29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel. 30 But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.
  • Judg 19:9 : 9 And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.
  • Gen 24:59 : 59 So they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with Abraham's servant and his men.
  • Gen 31:55 : 55 And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.

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  • Exod 18:23-24
    2 verses
    81%

    23If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.

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

  • Exod 4:18-20
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    80%

    18And 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.

    19And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.

    20And 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 18:5-9
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    80%

    5And 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.

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

    7And 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.

    8And 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.

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

  • Exod 18:1-2
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    80%

    1Now 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.

    2And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

  • Exod 18:14-18
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    79%

    14And 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?

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

    16And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.

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

    18Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself.

  • Num 10:29-30
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    29Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

    30But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.

  • Exod 35:20
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    20And all the children of Israel went away from Moses.

  • Exod 18:12
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    12Then 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 3:1
    72%

    1Now 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.

  • Josh 24:28
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    28Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.

  • Exod 19:24-25
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    24And the Lord said to him, Go down, and you and Aaron may come up; but let not the priests and the people make their way through to the Lord, or he will come on them suddenly.

    25So Moses went down to the people and said this to them.

  • Exod 33:1
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    1And the Lord said to Moses, Go forward from this place, you and the people whom you have taken up out of the land of Egypt, to that land about which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it.

  • Exod 8:29-30
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    29And Moses said, When I go out from you I will make prayer to the Lord that the cloud of flies may go away from Pharaoh and from his people and from his servants tomorrow: only let Pharaoh no longer by deceit keep back the people from making their offering to the Lord.

    30Then Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord.

  • Lev 25:41
    70%

    41Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

  • Judg 2:6
    70%

    6And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.

  • Judg 19:7
    70%

    7And the man got up to go away, but his father-in-law would not let him go, so he took his rest there again for the night.

  • Num 11:30
    70%

    30Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back to the tent-circle.

  • Exod 2:18
    69%

    18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you have come back so quickly today?

  • Exod 18:26
    69%

    26And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

  • Deut 31:16
    69%

    16And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them.

  • Exod 10:29
    69%

    29And Moses said, You say truly; I will not see your face again.

  • Exod 2:15
    69%

    15Now 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.

  • Josh 22:6
    68%

    6Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.

  • Deut 31:1
    68%

    1So Moses said all these things to Israel.

  • Num 31:1
    68%

    1Then the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 5:1
    68%

    1And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the waste land.

  • Exod 2:21
    68%

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