Exodus 18:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Exod 2:21 : 21 And Moses was content to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.
  • Exod 4:25-26 : 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband are you to me. 26 So he let him go, then she said, A bloody husband you are, because of the circumcision.

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  • Exod 18:1
    83%

    1When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt,

  • Exod 18:3-9
    7 verses
    81%

    3And her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom, for he said, I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

    4And the name of the other was Eliezer, for the God of my father, he said, was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.

    5And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mount of God.

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

    7And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down, and kissed him; and they asked each other about their well-being; and they went into the tent.

    8And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the hardships that had come upon them along the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

    9And Jethro rejoiced for all the good which the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

  • Exod 2:20-22
    3 verses
    80%

    20And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

    21And Moses was content to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

    22And she bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

  • Exod 18:27
    78%

    27And Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land.

  • Exod 4:18
    76%

    18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray, and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

  • Exod 4:20
    74%

    20And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

  • Exod 3:1
    74%

    1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

  • Exod 18:24
    74%

    24So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he said.

  • Exod 18:12
    74%

    12And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

  • Exod 4:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband are you to me.

    26So he let him go, then she said, A bloody husband you are, because of the circumcision.

  • Exod 18:17
    72%

    17And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that you do is not good.

  • Exod 18:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand by you from morning to evening?

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

  • Num 25:6
    71%

    6And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the entrance of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Exod 2:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15When Pharaoh heard of this, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

    16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

  • Exod 2:1
    69%

    1And a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

  • Num 25:16
    68%

    16And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,