New English Translation

Exodus 18:1-7 New English Translation (NET)

1. Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.

2. Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

3. and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”),

4. and the other Eliezer (for Moses had said, “The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

5. Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by the mountain of God.

6. He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

7. Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.