18And Jethro, the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, his people, that Yahweh had brought Israel out from Egypt. ²And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away, ³and her two sons—the one whose name was Gershom, for he had said, “I have been an alien in a foreign land,” ⁴and the one whose name was Eliezer, for “the God of my father was my help, and he delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.” ⁵And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came and his sons and his wife to Moses, to the desert where he was camping there at the mountain of God. ⁶And he said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her.” ⁷And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed, and he kissed him, and they each asked about the other’s welfare,^a and they came into the tent.

⁸And Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the hardship that had found them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them. ⁹And Jethro rejoiced over all the good that Yahweh had done for Israel when he delivered them from the hand of Egypt. ¹⁰And Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of Pharaoh—who has delivered the people from under the hand of Egypt. ¹¹Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, even in the matter where they the Egyptians dealt arrogantly against the Israelites.”^b ¹²And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “they asked a man to his neighbor to welfare”
bLiterally “because in the thing that they dealt arrogantly over them”