16 Now the priest of Midian(A) had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock. 18 When they returned to their father Reuel,[a](B) he asked, “Why have you come back so quickly today?”

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Footnotes

  1. 2:18 Jethro’s clan or last name was Reuel; Ex 3:1.

Moses and the Burning Bush

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro,[a] the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb,[b] the mountain of God.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:1 Moses’s father-in-law’s first name was Jethro; Ex 2:18.
  2. 3:1 = Desolation; another name for Mount Sinai; Dt 4:10,15; 18:16; Mal 4:4

Moses’s Return to Egypt

18 Then Moses went back to his father-in-law, Jethro, and said to him, “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living.”

Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

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11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the sons of Hobab,(A) Moses’s father-in-law,(B) and pitched his tent beside the oak tree of Zaanannim,(C) which was near Kedesh.

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