Exodus 18:7

Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

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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

6He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”

8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:2He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

Genesis 29:13When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

Genesis 33:3He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Genesis 45:15He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

Numbers 22:36When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

1 Samuel 17:18and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand; and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

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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