Exodus 18:2
Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
Then Iethro Moses father in law tooke Zipporah Moses wife, after he had sent her backe,
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25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
25Then Zipporah tooke a sharpe ‖stone, and cut off the foreskinne of her sonne, and †cast it at his feete, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to mee.
26So he let him goe: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the Circumcision.
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Exodus 18:2
Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.
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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.
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Caused to go or be carried; dispatched.
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Sense 1: The rear part; a position or direction behind. Sense 2: A return to a former place or condition.
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18:1WHEN Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt;
18:1¶ When *Iethro the Priest of Midian, Moses father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt:
18:2Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
18:2Then Iethro Moses father in law tooke Zipporah Moses wife, after he had sent her backe,
Selected passage18:3And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
18:3And her two sonnes, of which the *name of the one was †Gershom: for he said, I haue bene an alien in a strange land.
18:4And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
18:4And the name of the other was †Eliezer: for the God of my father, said he, was mine helpe, and deliuered me from the sword of Pharaoh.
18:5And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
18:5And Iethro Moses father in law came with his sonnes and his wife vnto Moses into the wildernes, where he encamped at the mount of God.
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.
18:6And he said vnto Moses, I thy father in law Iethro am come vnto thee, and thy wife, and her two sonnes with her.