Exodus 18:27

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Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own land.

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  • Num 10:29-30 : 29 Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: "We are setting out for the place about which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things for Israel." 30 But he replied to him, "I will not go; I am going back to my own land and to my relatives."
  • Judg 19:9 : 9 When the man, his concubine, and his servant arose to leave, his father-in-law, the woman’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Stay here tonight; the day is almost over. Spend the night here, and let your heart be content. You can rise early tomorrow and continue on your way home.”
  • Gen 24:59 : 59 So they sent away their sister Rebekah, along with her nurse, Abraham's servant, and his men.

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  • Exod 18:23-24
    2 verses
    81%

    23If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to endure, and all these people will go home satisfied and at peace.

    24Moses listened to his father-in-law’s advice and did everything he said.

  • Exod 4:18-20
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    80%

    18Then Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, 'Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt to see if they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.'

    19Now the LORD said to Moses in Midian, 'Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are now dead.'

    20So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

  • Exod 18:5-9
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    5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God, bringing Moses’ wife and his two sons with him.

    6Jethro sent word to Moses, saying, 'I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons.'

    7So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

    8Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, all the hardships they had faced along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

    9Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, delivering them from the hand of the Egyptians.

  • Exod 18:1-2
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    80%

    1Jethro, the priest of Midian and Moses’ father-in-law, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

    2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after she had been sent away,

  • Exod 18:14-18
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    14When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything he was doing for the people, he said, 'What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning till evening?'

    15Moses answered his father-in-law, 'Because the people come to me to inquire of God.'

    16Whenever they have a dispute, they come to me to seek judgment. I decide between one person and another and make known the statutes of God and His laws.

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

    18You and these people who come to you will surely wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.

  • Num 10:29-30
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    29Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: "We are setting out for the place about which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things for Israel."

    30But he replied to him, "I will not go; I am going back to my own land and to my relatives."

  • Exod 35:20
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    20Then the entire assembly of the Israelites left Moses' presence.

  • Exod 18:12
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    12Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God. Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.

  • Exod 3:1
    72%

    1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Josh 24:28
    71%

    28Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own inheritance.

  • Exod 19:24-25
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    24The LORD replied, 'Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.'

    25So Moses went down to the people and told them.

  • Exod 33:1
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    1The LORD said to Moses, 'Go up from here, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’

  • Lev 25:41
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    41Then they and their children are to be released, and they will return to their own family and to the property of their ancestors.

  • Judg 2:6
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    6After Joshua sent the people away, the Israelites went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance.

  • Judg 19:7
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    7The man got up to leave, but his father-in-law urged him, so he stayed there another night.

  • Num 11:30
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    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 2:18
    69%

    18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked, 'Why have you returned so early today?'

  • Exod 18:26
    69%

    26They judged the people at all times. They brought the difficult cases to Moses, but they decided the simple ones themselves.

  • Deut 31:16
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    16The LORD said to Moses, 'Behold, you are going to rest with your ancestors, and this people will rise up and prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.'

  • Exod 10:29
    69%

    29"Just as you say," Moses replied, "I will never see your face again."

  • Exod 2:15
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    15When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.

  • Josh 22:6
    68%

    6So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.

  • Deut 31:1
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    1Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

  • Num 31:1
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    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Exod 5:1
    68%

    1Afterward, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'Let my people go so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.'"

  • Exod 2:21
    68%

    21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.