Exodus 18:5

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 3:1 : 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 3:12 : 12 He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
  • Exod 19:11 : 11 and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
  • Exod 19:20 : 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
  • Exod 24:16-17 : 16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 19:8 : 8 He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.

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  • Exod 18:6-10
    5 verses
    92%

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

    7Moses 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.

    8Moses 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.

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

    10Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

  • Exod 18:1-4
    4 verses
    87%

    1Now 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.

    2Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

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

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

  • Exod 18:12
    81%

    12Jethro, 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 3:1
    80%

    1Now 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 18:14-17
    4 verses
    80%

    14When 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?"

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

    16When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

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

  • Exod 4:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18Moses 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."

    19Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

    20Moses 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 18:27
    76%

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

  • Exod 18:24
    75%

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

  • Num 10:29
    74%

    29Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel."

  • Exod 2:15-18
    4 verses
    74%

    15Now 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.

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

    17The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

    18When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

  • Exod 19:17
    73%

    17Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

  • Exod 19:20
    72%

    20Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • Exod 19:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.

    3Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

  • Num 11:30
    72%

    30Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

  • Num 25:6
    71%

    6Behold, 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 2:21
    71%

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

  • Judg 1:16
    70%

    16The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

  • Exod 24:13
    70%

    13Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.

  • Lev 18:1
    69%

    1Yahweh said to Moses,

  • Exod 4:27
    69%

    27Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

  • Num 27:5
    69%

    5Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

  • Gen 47:5
    69%

    5Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.