“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good!

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, “Why have you come home so early today?”

If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. (The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)

Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you.

Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

and the other Eliezer (for Moses had said, “The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camping by the mountain of God.

He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

and anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may minister as my priests; their anointing will make them a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.”

“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”