Exodus 2:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He 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.”

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  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
  • Gen 43:25 : 25 They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival at noon, for they had heard that they were to have a meal there.
  • Job 31:32 : 32 But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler–
  • Job 42:11 : 11 So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
  • 1 Tim 5:10 : 10 and has a reputation for good works: as one who has raised children, practiced hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in distress– as one who has exhibited all kinds of good works.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it.
  • Gen 18:5 : 5 And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.”“All right,” they replied,“you may do as you say.”
  • Gen 19:2-3 : 2 He said,“Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“No,” they replied,“we’ll spend the night in the town square.” 3 But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.
  • Gen 24:31-33 : 31 Laban said to him,“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?” 32 So Abraham’s servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet. 33 When food was served, he said,“I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.”“Tell us,” Laban said.
  • Gen 29:13 : 13 When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him.

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  • Exod 2:21-22
    2 verses
    78%

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

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

  • Exod 2:15-19
    5 verses
    76%

    15 When 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.

    16 Now 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.

    17 When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

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

    19 They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”

  • Judg 19:4-8
    5 verses
    71%

    4 His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.

    5 On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law,“Have a bite to eat for some energy, then you can go.”

    6 So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. Then the girl’s father said to the man,“Why not stay another night and have a good time!”

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

    8 He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said,“Get some energy. Wait until later in the day to leave!” So they ate a meal together.

  • Exod 18:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 The 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.

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

  • Exod 18:5-8
    4 verses
    69%

    5 Jethro, 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.

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

    7 Moses 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.

    8 Moses 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.

  • 23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked.“Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

  • 12 Then 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.

  • 18 The 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.”

  • 57 Then they said,“We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.”

  • 6 “Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied,“He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

  • 9 Then they asked him,“Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied,“There, in the tent.”

  • 18 They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, gave him a house and some land and supplied him with food.

  • 5 And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.”“All right,” they replied,“you may do as you say.”

  • 54 After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said,“Let me leave now so I can return to my master.”

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

  • 1 Now 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.

  • 24 Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him.

  • 18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said,“What is this you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

  • 8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.

  • 15 Moses said to them,“Have you allowed all the women to live?

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