Exodus 18:5

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came to Moses with his sons and his wife into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mountain of God.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

In Context

4and the name of the other, Eliezer For the God of my father has been my help, and has delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.

6And he sent word to Moses: I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come to thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:1And Moses tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God to Horeb.

Exodus 19:11and let them be ready for the third day; for on the third day Jehovah will come down before the eyes of all the people on mount Sinai.

Exodus 24:16And the glory of Jehovah abode on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 18:2-7

Jethro's Visit to Moses. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt; 2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help,… Read the whole commentary →

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