Exodus 18:7

And Mosheh went forth to meet his father-in-law, and bowed, and kissed him, and each saluted the other with peace; and they entered the tabernacle.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.

In Context

6And he had told Mosheh, I, thy father-in-law Jethro, come to thee with thy wife, and her two sons with her.

8And Mosheh recounted to his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharoh and to Mizraim for Israel’s sake; and all the tribulation that they had found upon the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:2And lie lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, three men stood towards him; and he saw, and ran from the door of the tent to meet them, and worshipped upon the earth.

Genesis 29:13And it was when Laban heard the hearing of Jakob the son of his sister, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him into his house; and he narrated to Laban all these words.

Genesis 33:3And he passed over before them, and bowed to the earth seven times, until he came nigh to his brother.

Genesis 45:15And he kissed all his brothers, and wept over them; and afterward his brothers discoursed with him.

Numbers 22:36And Balak heard that Bileam was coming, and went forth to meet him, at a city of Moab which is upon the border of Arnon, on the side of the frontier.

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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