Exodus 4:18

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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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.
  • 1 Sam 1:17 : 17 Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him."
  • Luke 7:50 : 50 He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."
  • Acts 15:36 : 36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let's return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing."
  • Acts 16:36 : 36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."
  • 1 Tim 6:1 : 1 Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
  • Gen 45:3 : 3 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

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  • Exod 4:19-21
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    83%

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

    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.

    21 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

  • Exod 18:27
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    27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.

  • Exod 18:1-2
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    78%

    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 18:4-10
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    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.

    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 18:23-24
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    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.

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    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 18:15
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    15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

  • Num 10:29-30
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    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."

    30 He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives."

  • Exod 17:5
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    5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.

  • Exod 3:18
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    18 They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'

  • Exod 6:10-11
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    73%

    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    11 "Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land."

  • Exod 10:8-10
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    8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?"

    9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."

    10 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

  • Exod 10:24
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    24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you."

  • Exod 18:17
    72%

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

  • Exod 2:15
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    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.

  • Exod 2:18
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    18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

  • Exod 9:1
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    1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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    22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

  • Num 14:13
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    13 Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;

  • Exod 3:10-11
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    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."

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    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 8:1
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, "This is what Yahweh says, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me.

  • Judg 18:6
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    6 The priest said to them, "Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh."

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    1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"

  • Num 14:4
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    4 They said one to another, "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."

  • Exod 33:1
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    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'