Jethro

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

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

Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.

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

² After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,

³ along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

⁵ Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped 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.”

⁹ And Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had rescued from the hand of the Egyptians.

¹⁰ Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.

¹¹ Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”

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

¹² from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

¹³ from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;

¹⁴ from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;

¹⁵ and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”

¹⁴ Next will be the tribe of Gad. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel,

¹⁵ and his division numbers 45,650.

On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, the leader of the Gadites, drew near.

⁴⁵ one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;

⁴⁶ one male goat for a sin offering;

⁴⁷ and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.