Exodus 18:27

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 10:29-30 : 29 The Appeal to Hobab Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,“We are journeying to 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 Hobab said to him,“I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”
  • Judg 19:9 : 9 When the man got ready to leave with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him,“Look! The day is almost over! Stay another night! Since the day is over, stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.”
  • Gen 24:59 : 59 So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.
  • Gen 31:55 : 55 (32:1) Early in the morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.

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  • Exod 18:23-24
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    23If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

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

  • Exod 4:18-20
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    80%

    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.”

    19The LORD said to Moses in Midian,“Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

    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 18:5-9
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    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 18:1-2
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    80%

    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.

    2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

  • Exod 18:14-18
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    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.

    16When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”

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

    18You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.

  • Num 10:29-30
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    29The Appeal to Hobab Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,“We are journeying to 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 Hobab said to him,“I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”

  • Exod 35:20
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    20So the whole community of the Israelites went out from the presence of Moses.

  • Exod 18:12
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    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 3:1
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    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.

  • Josh 24:28
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    28When Joshua dismissed the people, they went to their allotted portions of land.

  • Exod 19:24-25
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    24The LORD said to him,“Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them.”

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

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

  • Exod 8:29-30
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    29Moses said,“I am going to go out from you and pray to the LORD, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the LORD.”

    30So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD,

  • Lev 25:41
    70%

    41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

  • Judg 2:6
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    6The End of an Era When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, intending to take possession of the land.

  • Judg 19:7
    70%

    7When the man got ready to leave, his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night.

  • Num 11:30
    70%

    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 2:18
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    18So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked,“Why have you come home so early today?”

  • Exod 18:26
    69%

    26They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.

  • Deut 31:16
    69%

    16Then the LORD said to Moses,“You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

  • Exod 10:29
    69%

    29Moses said,“As you wish! I will not see your face again.”

  • Exod 2:15
    69%

    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.

  • Josh 22:6
    68%

    6Joshua rewarded them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes.

  • Deut 31:1
    68%

    1Succession of Moses by Joshua Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

  • Num 31:1
    68%

    1The Midianite War The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 5:1
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    1Opposition to the Plan of God Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said,‘Release my people so that they may hold a pilgrim feast 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.