6Jethro had sent word to him, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons."


In Context

3 and her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses said, "I have become an alien in a foreign land";

4 and the other was named Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my helper; he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh."

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

6 Jethro had sent word to him, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons."

7 So Moses went out to meet his father- in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent.

8 Moses told his father-in-law about everything the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the Lord had saved them.

Exodus 18:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:6And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:6And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro thy kinsman come to thee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:6and he said unto Moses, I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:6And he sent word to Moses: I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come to thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:6and he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:6And he said to Moses, I thy father-in-law Jethro have come to thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:6He said to Moses, |I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:6and he saith unto Moses, 'I, thy father-in-law, Jethro, am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:6And he said to Moses, I your father in law Jethro am come to you, and your wife, and her two sons with her.