Exodus 18
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Exodus 18:7-12

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!

11Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”

12Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

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