Exodus 18:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 2:21 : 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
  • Exod 4:25-26 : 25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said,“Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.” 26 So the LORD let him alone.(At that time she said,“A bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.)

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  • Exod 18:1
    83%

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

  • Exod 18:3-9
    7 verses
    81%

    3and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom(for Moses had said,“I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),

    4and the other Eliezer(for Moses had said,“The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

    5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camping by the mountain of God.

    6He said to Moses,“I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

    7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.

    8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

    9Jethro rejoiced because of all the good that the LORD had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.

  • Exod 2:20-22
    3 verses
    80%

    20He said to his daughters,“So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us.”

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

    22When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said,“I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”

  • Exod 18:27
    78%

    27Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.

  • Exod 4:18
    76%

    18The Return of Moses So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him,“Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses,“Go in peace.”

  • Exod 4:20
    74%

    20Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

  • Exod 3:1
    74%

    1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, 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%

    24Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

  • Exod 18:12
    74%

    12Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

  • Exod 4:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said,“Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

    26So the LORD let him alone.(At that time she said,“A bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.)

  • Exod 18:17
    72%

    17Moses’ father-in-law said to him,“What you are doing is not good!

  • Exod 18:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said,“What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

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

  • Num 25:6
    71%

    6Just then one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of the whole community of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

  • Exod 2:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.

    16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

  • Exod 2:1
    69%

    1The Birth of the Deliverer A man from the household of Levi married a woman who was a descendant of Levi.

  • Num 25:16
    68%

    16Then the LORD spoke to Moses: