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Exodus 18:5

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18:5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’8 sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by9 the mountain of God.10

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Footnotes

  1. 8 Heb “his”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. 9 This is an adverbial accusative that defines the place (see §118.g).
  3. 10 The mountain of God is Horeb, and so the desert here must be the Sinai desert by it. But chap. 19 suggests that they left Rephidim to go the 24 miles to Sinai. It may be that this chapter fits in chronologically after the move to Sinai, but was placed here thematically. W. C. Kaiser defends the present location of the story by responding to other reasons for the change given by Lightfoot, but does not deal with the travel locations (W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” 2:).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and wife, came to him in the wilderness, where he was camped near the mountain of God.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Moses’s father-in-law, Jethro, along with Moses’s wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.

NLTNew Living Translation

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, now came to visit Moses in the wilderness. He brought Moses’ wife and two sons with him, and they arrived while Moses and the people were camped near the mountain of God.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: