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Jethro and Moses (watercolor circa 1900 by James Tissot) Jethro is called a priest of Midian and became father-in-law of Moses after he gave his daughter, Zipporah, in marriage to Moses. He is introduced in Exodus 2:18. Jethro is recorded as living in Midian, a territory stretching along the eastern edge of the Gulf of Aqaba, northwestern Arabia.
The Ten Commandments (illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company). Yitro, Yithro, Yisroi, Yisrau, or Yisro (יִתְרוֹ , Hebrew for the name "Jethro," the second word and first distinctive word in the parashah) is the seventeenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in ...
Articles relating to Jethro, a Kenite shepherd and priest of Midian who is identified as Moses' father-in-law. Pages in category "Jethro (biblical figure)" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
In Exodus 3:1 Jethro is said to have been a "priest in the land of Midian" and a resident of Midian (Numbers 10:29). This has led many scholars to believe that the terms "Kenite" and "Midianite" are intended (at least in parts of the Bible) to be used interchangeably, or that the Kenites formed a part of the Midianite tribal grouping.
The Bible does not say when Zipporah and her sons rejoined Jethro, only that after he heard of what God did for the Israelites, he brought Moses' family to him. The most common translation is that Moses sent her away, but another grammatically permissible translation is that she sent things or persons, perhaps the announcement of the victory ...
R. Joshua and R. Eleazar of Modi'im disagree as to Jethro's position in Midian: according to one, the words kohen Midyan mean that he was the "priest [of] Midian"; according to the other, "prince [of] Midian". [8] Other sources state that Jethro was a priest. [9] Jethro, having remarked that the worship of an idol was foolish, abandoned it. [10]
James Tissot's c. 1900 watercolor painting Jethro and Moses.Jethro was the most well known Midianite. The Kenite hypothesis, or Midianite–Kenite hypothesis, is a hypothesis about the origins of the cult of Yahweh.
Jethro went to the dungeon and called Moses, who answered immediately. As Jethro found Moses praying, he believed he had been saved by a miracle and liberated him. Jethro had planted in his garden a marvelous rod, which had been created on the sixth day of the Creation, on Friday afternoon, and had been given to Adam.