Exodus 18:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.”
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“Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Jethro priest of Midian, father-in-law of Moses, heareth all that God hath done for Moses, and for Israel his people, that Jehovah hath brought out Israel from Egypt,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 18:1 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
- Exodus 2:18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
- Exodus 2:21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
- Exodus 3:1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Exodus 4:18Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.
- Exodus 7:1The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
- Numbers 10:29Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
- Joshua 2:10For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.
- Joshua 9:9“Your servants have come from a very distant land,” they replied, “because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports about Him: all that He did in Egypt,
- Judges 1:16Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
- Judges 4:11Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent by the great tree of Zaanannim, which was near Kedesh.
- Nehemiah 9:10You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.
- Psalms 34:2My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.
- Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
- Psalms 77:14You are the God who works wonders; You display Your strength among the peoples.
- Psalms 78:4We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
- Psalms 78:50He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
- Psalms 105:5Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
- Psalms 105:36Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.
- Psalms 105:43He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.
- Psalms 106:2Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORD or fully proclaim His praise?
- Psalms 106:8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
- Psalms 136:10He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever.
- Isaiah 63:11Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
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