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Jethro Visits Moses

18 Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.

After Moses had sent his wife Zipporah away, his father-in-law Jethro had taken her in, along with her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom,[a] for Moses had said, “I have become an alien in a foreign land.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 18:3 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for an alien there.