Exodus 18:2

World English Bible (2000)

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 2:21 : 21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
  • Exod 4:25-26 : 25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." 26 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

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  • Exod 18:1
    83%

    1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

  • Exod 18:3-9
    7 verses
    81%

    3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".

    4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword."

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

    6 He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."

    7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

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

    9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

  • Exod 2:20-22
    3 verses
    80%

    20 He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

    21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

    22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

  • Exod 18:27
    78%

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

  • Exod 4:18
    76%

    18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

  • Exod 4:20
    74%

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

  • Exod 3:1
    74%

    1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.

  • Exod 18:24
    74%

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

  • Exod 18:12
    74%

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

  • Exod 4:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

    26 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

  • Exod 18:17
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    17 Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.

  • Exod 18:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Num 25:6
    71%

    6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Exod 2:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

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

  • Exod 2:1
    69%

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

  • Num 25:16
    68%

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,