Jethro in the Bible
Meaning: his excellence; his posterity
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And Moses was a shepherd with the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west [of] the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.
And Moses went, and he returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and he said to him, "Please let me go, and let me return to my brothers who [are] in Egypt, and let me see whether they [are] yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
And Jethro, the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, his people, that Yahweh had brought Israel out from Egypt.
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away,
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came and his sons and his wife to Moses, to the desert where he was camping there [at] the mountain of God.
And he said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, [am] coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her."
And Jethro rejoiced over all the good that Yahweh had done for Israel when he delivered them from the hand of Egypt.
And Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of Pharaoh--who has delivered the people from under the hand of Egypt.
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.
And Moses will hear to the voice of Jethro, and will do all that he said.
Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.
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Heathen » Instances of » Jethro
Israel » Organization » Government » Jethro
How shall I bear alone your burden and your lifting up and your strife Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads. And ye will answer me and say, Good the word which thou spakest to do. And I will take the heads of your tribes, men wise and known, and I will give them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains and hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and scribes for your tribes. And I shall command your judges in that time, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge justice between a man and between his brother and between his stranger. Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it
Jethro » Moses spent forty years of exile with, and married his daughter
And they will come to Reuel their father, and he will say, Wherefore hastened ye to come this day? And they will say, A man, an Egyptian, delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and also drawing, drew for us, and watered the sleep. And he will say to his daughters, Where is he? for what this left ye the man? call to him and he shall eat bread. And Moses will be contented to dwell with the man, and he will give Zipporah his daughter to Moses. And she will bear a son, and he will call his name Gershom; for he said, I was a sojourner in a strange land.
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Priest » Before moses » Jethro
Prudence » Exemplified » Jethro
And they judged the people in all time: and it will be every great word they will bring to thee, and every small word they shall judge: and it will be light for thee, and they shall lift up with thee. If thou shalt do this word, and God commanded thee, and thou shalt be. able to stand, and all this people shall go to their place in peace.