Exodus 18:1-10

1Jethro, 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.

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

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

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

5Jethro, 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.

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

7Moses 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.

8Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.

9Jethro rejoiced because of all the good that the Lord had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.

10Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians’ control!