Exodus 18:5

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 was Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.'

6and he said unto Moses: 'I thy father-in-law Jethro am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.'

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Cross References

Exodus 3:1Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.

Exodus 19:11and be ready against the third day; for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

Exodus 24:16And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and the seventh day He called unto 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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