Exodus 3:1

The Burning Bush

1Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the amountain of God.

Exodus 4:18

Moses Returns to Egypt

18Moses went back to bJethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

Exodus 18:1-12

Jethro’s Advice

1 cJethro, dthe priest of Midian, Mosesfather-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. 2Now Jethro, Mosesfather-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moseswife, after he had sent her home, 3along with her etwo sons. The name of the one was Gershom ( ffor he said, g“I have been a sojourner
 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew word for  sojourner
in a foreign land”),
4and 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”).
5Jethro, Mosesfather-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the jmountain of God. 6And 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,”
7Moses lwent out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and mkissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent. 8Then Moses told his father-in-law nall that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them in the way, and how the Lord had delivered them. 9And Jethro rejoiced for all the good that the Lord had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

10Jethro said, oBlessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh and has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11Now I know that pthe Lord is greater than all gods, because in this affair they qdealt arrogantly with the people.”
Hebrew with them
12And Jethro, Mosesfather-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Mosesfather-in-law sbefore God.

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