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Exodus 18:2
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Yitro, Moshe' father-in-law, received Tzipporah, Moshe' wife, after he had sent her away,
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away,
Now Moses had sent his wife Zipporah to Jethro, his father-in-law,
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,
Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away [from Egypt],
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took in Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,
Then Iethro the father in lawe of Moses, tooke Zipporah Moses wife, (after he had sent her away)
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,
In the meantime, Moses had sent his wife Zipporah and her two sons to stay with Jethro, and he had welcomed them. Moses was still a foreigner in Midian when his first son was born, and so Moses said, "I'll name him Gershom." When his second son was born, Moses said, "I'll name him Eliezer, because the God my father worshiped has saved me from the king of Egypt."
After Moshe had sent away his wife Tzipporah and her two sons, Yitro Moshe's father-in-law had taken them back.
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
So Jethro went to Moses while Moses was camped near the mountain of God. Jethro brought Moses' wife, Zipporah, with him. (Zipporah was not with Moses, because Moses had sent her home.)
Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her home,
Then Jethro, Moses father-in-law, took his daughter Zipporah, Moses wife, after he had sent her back,
So he came to Moses, bringing with him Moses' wife Zipporah, who had been left behind,
Now Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah, Moses’s wife, after he had sent her back,
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, (after Moses had sent her away,)
he toke Zipora Moses wife, whom he had sent backe,
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
Therefore he toke Sephora Moyses wyfe, after he had sent her backe,
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
Then Iethro Moses father in law tooke Zipporah Moses wife, after he had sent her backe,
And Jothor the father-in-law of Moses, took Sepphora the wife of Moses after she had been sent away,
And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
he took Sefora, `the wijf of Moises, whom he hadde sent ayen,
and Jethro, father-in-law of Moses, taketh Zipporah, wife of Moses, besides her parents,
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah Moses's wife, after he had sent her back,
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
Earlier, Moses had sent his wife, Zipporah, and his two sons back to Jethro, who had taken them in.
Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, had taken Moses' wife, Zipporah, after Moses had sent her away.
After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro took her back,
So Jethro, Moses father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses wife, - after she had been sent home;
He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back:
Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken Zippo'rah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Zipporah: Exodus 2:21, Exodus 4:25, Exodus 4:26
Reciprocal: Exodus 18:24 - General Acts 7:29 - Madian
Cross-References
And said, My Lord , if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.
And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses's wife,.... When he had heard of the above things, he determined to pay Moses a visit, and congratulate him on that account; and he took his daughter, the wife of Moses, along with him, to deliver her to her husband, to share with him in his cares and troubles; as to partake with him of his honours and dignity, so to bear part with him in his burdens, so far as she was capable of:
after he had sent her back: upon his call and mission to Egypt, he took his wife and children with him; but upon an affair which occurred in the inn by the way, he sent them back again to his father-in-law, where they had remained ever since, see Exodus 4:24. Jarchi says this was done at meeting with Aaron his brother, Exodus 4:27, and relates a conversation between them upon it. As that Aaron should say to him, who are these? to which he replied, this is my wife, I married her in Midian, and these are my sons: he further said to him, and where art thou carrying them? he replied, to Egypt; says he, by reason of those who are before there, we are in straits, and thou wilt add unto them; upon which he said to his wife, go back to thy father's house, and she took her sons and went thither. Kimchi f observes, that some render the words "after her gifts"; whose sense, according to Aben Ezra, is, after she had sent gifts to her husband; but others more probably interpret it of gifts sent by him to her to engage his father-in-law to let her come to him, as well as to prevail upon her to come; perhaps it may be better rendered, "after her messenger"; that is, either after the messenger sent to her by Moses, to acquaint her and her father of what had been done for him, or after the messenger she sent to him, to let him know that she intended shortly to be with him; though perhaps, after all, nearer to our version and others, it may be rendered, "after her dismissions" g; the dismission or sending away of her and her sons, as before related; for this is by no means to be interpreted of a divorce of her; after which she was brought again to her husband; for there is no reason to believe that ever anything of that kind had passed, as some have thought h: the plain case seems to be this, that Moses finding his family would be exposed to danger, or would be too great an incumbrance upon him in the discharge of his great work he had to do in Egypt, sent them back to his father-in-law until a fit opportunity should offer of their coming to him, as now did.
f Sepher Shorash. rad. ש×× "post dona vel donationes ejus"; so some in Vatablus and Drusius. g ××ר ש××××× "post dimissiones ejus", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius. h Vid. Selden. Uxor. Hebr. p. 629.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 18:2. After he had sent her back — Why Zipporah and her two sons returned to Midian, is not certainly known. From the transaction recorded Exodus 4:20; Exodus 4:24, it seems as if she had been alarmed at the danger to which the life of one of her sons had been exposed, and fearing worse evils, left her husband and returned to her father. It is however possible that Moses, foreseeing the troubles to which his wife and children were likely to be exposed had he taken them down to Egypt, sent them back to his father-in-law till it should please God to deliver his people.
Jethro, now finding that God had delivered them, and totally discomfited the Egyptians, their enemies, thought it proper to bring Zipporah and her sons to Moses, while he was in the vicinity of Horeb.
