Exodus 18:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Additional Resources

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Exod 18:1-5
    5 verses
    92%

    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,

    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.

  • Exod 18:7-10
    4 verses
    83%

    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.

    10Jethro said,“Blessed be the LORD who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians’ control!

  • 78%

    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!

  • Exod 4:18-20
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.”

  • 5Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Your father and your brothers have come to you.

  • 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 2:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • 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.

  • 1Exhortation to Obedience and Life The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 3Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,“Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel:

  • 2God spoke to Moses and said to him,“I am the LORD.

  • 17Rules for First Fruits The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 2“Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

  • 19You are also commanded to say,‘Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.

  • 28The Authentication of the Word When the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

  • 27The LORD said to Aaron,“Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.

  • 59Now the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And to Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and Miriam their sister.

  • 1Religious and Social Regulations The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 16Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 1The Slaughter of Animals The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • 18but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.