Exodus 18:6

Moses was told beforehand, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to see you together with your wife and her two sons.”

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In The King James Version

And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

In Context

5Moses' father-in-law Jethro, together with Moses' wife and sons, came to see him in the desert at the camp near the mountain of God.

7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They asked each other how they were and then went into the tent.

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Cross References

Exodus 4:20Moses put his wife and sons on a donkey and went back to Egypt, carrying the walking stick that God had used to perform miracles.

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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