Exodus 18:7

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Gen 29:13 : 13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
  • 2 Sam 11:7 : 7 When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
  • 1 Kgs 2:19 : 19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
  • Gen 14:17 : 17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
  • Gen 18:2 : 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
  • Gen 19:1 : 1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
  • Ps 2:12 : 12 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
  • Luke 7:45 : 45 You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
  • Acts 28:15 : 15 From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God, and took courage.
  • Gen 31:28 : 28 and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
  • Gen 33:3-7 : 3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. 5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." 6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
  • Gen 43:27-28 : 27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?" 28 They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.
  • Gen 45:15 : 15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
  • Gen 46:29 : 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
  • Num 22:36 : 36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
  • Judg 11:34 : 34 Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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  • Exod 18:5-6
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    83%

    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."

  • Exod 18:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

    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.

    10 Jethro 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 18:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

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

  • Exod 18:12
    79%

    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 18:27
    79%

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

  • Exod 18:23-24
    2 verses
    79%

    23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."

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

  • Exod 4:27
    78%

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

  • Exod 18:14-17
    4 verses
    78%

    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.

    16 When 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."

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

  • Exod 4:18
    77%

    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 34:8
    74%

    8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

  • Exod 3:1
    73%

    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 2:16-18
    3 verses
    73%

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

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

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

  • Num 10:29
    72%

    29 Moses 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 2:20-21
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    71%

    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.

  • Num 11:30
    71%

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

  • Exod 19:17
    70%

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

  • Num 25:6
    70%

    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 33:8
    69%

    8 It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.

  • Exod 19:7
    69%

    7 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.

  • Exod 19:25
    69%

    25 So Moses went down to the people, and told them.

  • Exod 8:30
    69%

    30 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.

  • Num 14:5
    69%

    5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

  • Gen 50:1
    68%

    1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

  • Exod 19:14
    68%

    14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

  • Num 20:6
    68%

    6 Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and fell on their faces: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.

  • Judg 19:4
    68%

    4 His father-in-law, the young lady's father, retained him; and he stayed with him three days: so they ate and drink, and lodged there.

  • Gen 18:2
    68%

    2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

  • Lev 9:23
    68%

    23 Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the people.