Exodus 18:5

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3 with her ^atwo sons, of whom the name of one was¹ Gershom (for he said, ^b“I have been a stranger in a foreign land”)

4 and the name of the other was¹ Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my ^ahelp, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”);

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

6 Now he had said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her.”

7 So Moses ^awent out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and ^bkissed him. And they asked each other about their well-being, and they went into the tent.

8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how the Lord had ^adelivered them.

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Exodus 18:5

The wilderness - i. e., according to the view which seems on the whole most probable, the plain near the northern summit of Horeb, the mountain of God. The valley which opens upon Er Rahah on the left of Horeh is called "Wady Shueib" by the Arabs, i. e. the vale of Hobab.

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