Priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law · The Exodus

Jethro in the Bible

Also called Reuel

Moses spends forty years keeping Jethro's flocks before the burning bush. After the Exodus, Jethro brings Zipporah and the boys back to him, worships with Israel's elders, and tells Moses plainly that judging every dispute alone will wear him out — the first delegation of authority in Israel.

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Read the first mention — Exodus 2:18Search every form of “Jethro”

Verses mentioning Jethro

12 occurrences across 10 verses in the King James Version.

  1. Exodus 2:18

    And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? Reuel: called also Jethro, or, Jether

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  2. Exodus 3:1

    Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

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  3. Exodus 4:18

    And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. Jethro: Heb. Jether

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  4. Exodus 18:1

    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;

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  5. Exodus 18:2

    Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

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  6. Exodus 18:5

    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:

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  7. Exodus 18:6

    And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

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  8. Exodus 18:9

    And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

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  9. Exodus 18:10

    And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

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  10. Exodus 18:12

    And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.

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