Exo 18:1-6 | ESV | STEP | Jethro , the priest of Midian , Moses ’ father-in-law , heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people , how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt .

Exodus 18:1-6

Jethro’s Advice

1 ^aJethro, ^bthe priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2 Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home, 3 along with her ^ctwo sons. The name of the one was Gershom ( ^dfor he said, ^e“I have been a sojourner ^{▼▼ Gershom sounds like the Hebrew word for sojourner} in a foreign land”), 4 and the name of the other, Eliezer ^{▼▼ Eliezer means My God is help} (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”). 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the ^hmountain of God. 6 And when he sent word to Moses, “I, ^{▼▼Hebrew; Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac behold} your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her,”