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


In Context

3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, |I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land|.

4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, |My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword.|

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

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

7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:6Jethro had sent word to him, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons."

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 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.