1. Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.
2. Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
3. along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (because Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”)
4. and the other Eliezer (because he had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword”).
5. Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.
6. He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
7. So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and then kissed him. They asked each other how they had been and went into the tent.
8. Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that confronted them on the way, and how the Lord delivered them.
9. Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the Lord had done for Israel when He rescued them from the power of the Egyptians.