Exodus 3:1

World English Bible (2000)

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.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Num 10:29 : 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."
  • Judg 4:11 : 11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
  • Exod 17:6 : 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
  • Exod 18:1-6 : 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, 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."
  • Exod 19:3 : 3 Moses 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:
  • 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 24:13 : 13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God's Mountain.
  • Exod 24:15-17 : 15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 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.
  • Exod 2:16 : 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 2:18 : 18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"
  • Exod 2:21 : 21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."
  • Exod 4:27 : 27 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.
  • Ps 78:70-72 : 70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; 71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. 72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. A Psalm by Asaph.
  • Ps 106:19 : 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.
  • Amos 1:1 : 1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
  • Amos 7:14-15 : 14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs; 15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
  • Mal 4:4 : 4 "Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
  • Matt 4:18-19 : 18 Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men."
  • Luke 2:8 : 8 There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.
  • Deut 1:6 : 6 "Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain:
  • Deut 4:10 : 10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, "Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children."

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Exod 18:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    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 18:5-8
    4 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Exod 3:2-6
    5 verses
    80%

    2 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

    3 Moses said, "I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt."

    4 When Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst of the bush, and said, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am."

    5 He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."

    6 Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.

  • Exod 19:3
    78%

    3 Moses 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:

  • Acts 7:29-32
    4 verses
    77%

    29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

    30 "When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

    31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

    32 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Moses trembled, and dared not look.

  • Exod 2:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

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

  • Exod 18:15
    75%

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

  • Exod 4:18
    75%

    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 19:17
    74%

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

  • 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.

  • Num 10:29
    74%

    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."

  • Num 3:14
    74%

    14 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

  • Lev 1:1
    73%

    1 Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

  • Exod 4:20
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 1:1
    73%

    1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

  • Num 3:1
    73%

    1 Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.

  • Exod 24:18
    73%

    18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

  • Num 11:30
    73%

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

  • Exod 34:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

    3 No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

  • Exod 2:11
    73%

    11 It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

  • Exod 3:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

    11 Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

  • Exod 18:24
    73%

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

  • Exod 24:15
    72%

    15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

  • Exod 19:1
    72%

    1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

  • Exod 24:13
    72%

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

  • Num 31:1
    72%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 19:20
    72%

    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 14:1
    72%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 19:1
    72%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,