Exodus 18:1–12

¹And Jethro priest of Midian, father-in-law of Moses, heareth all that God hath done for Moses, and for Israel his people, that Jehovah hath brought out Israel from Egypt, ²and Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, taketh Zipporah, wife of Moses, besides her parents, ³and her two sons, of whom the name of the one is Gershom, for he said, ‘a sojourner I have been in a strange land:’ ⁴and the name of the other is Eliezer, for, ‘the God of my father is for my help, and doth deliver me from the sword of Pharaoh.’ ⁵And Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, cometh, and his sons, and his wife, unto Moses, unto the wilderness where he is encamping—the mount of God; ⁶and he saith unto Moses, ‘I, thy father-in-law, Jethro, am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.’

⁷And Moses goeth out to meet his father-in-law, and boweth himself, and kisseth him, and they ask one at another of welfare, and come into the tent; ⁸and Moses recounteth to his father-in-law all that Jehovah hath done to Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians, on account of Israel, all the travail which hath found them in the way, and Jehovah doth deliver them. ⁹And Jethro rejoiceth for all the good which Jehovah hath done to Israel, whom He hath delivered from the hand of the Egyptians; ¹⁰and Jethro saith, ‘Blessed is Jehovah, who hath delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of Pharaoh—who hath delivered this people from under the hand of the Egyptians; ¹¹now I have known that Jehovah is greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly—He is above them!’ ¹²And Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, taketh a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron cometh in, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses, before God.