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Person

Jethro

Also called Deuel, Reuel, Raguel

Mentioned in 16 verses across 2 books, first in Exodus 2:18. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

In the Bible

All 16 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Exodus

  • Exodus 2:18

    When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

  • Exodus 3:1

    Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Exodus 4:18

    Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.

  • Exodus 18:1

    Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

  • Exodus 18:2

    After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,

  • Exodus 18:5

    Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.

  • Exodus 18:6

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

  • Exodus 18:9

    And Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had rescued from the hand of the Egyptians.

  • Exodus 18:10

    Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.

  • Exodus 18:12

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

Numbers

  • Numbers 1:14

    from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;

  • Numbers 2:14

    Next will be the tribe of Gad. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel,

  • Numbers 7:42

    On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, the leader of the Gadites, drew near.

  • Numbers 7:47

    and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.

  • Numbers 10:20

    and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.

  • Numbers 10:29

    Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

“The priest of Midian,” Moses’ father-in-law (Ex. 2:18)=Raguel (Num. 10:29). If he be identified with Jethro (q.v.), then this may be regarded as his proper name, and Jether or Jethro (i.e., “excellency”) as his official title.

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