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JETHRO (or JETHER, Exod. iv. 18)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 359 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JETHRO (or JETHER, Exod. iv. 18)  , the See also:priest of See also:Midian, in the See also:Bible, whose daughter Zipporah became the wife of See also:Moses . He is known as Hobab the son of Reuel the Kenite (Num. x . 29; Judg. iv . I I), and once as Reuel (Exod. ii . 18) ; and if Zipporah is the wife of Moses referred to in Num. xii . I, the See also:family could be regarded as Cushite (see See also:CusH) . See also:Jethro was the priest of Yahweh, and resided at the sacred See also:mountain where the deity commissioned Moses to deliver the Israelites from See also:Egypt . Subsequently Jethro came to Moses (probably at Kadesh), a See also:great sacrificial feast was held, and the priest instructed Moses in legislative See also:procedure; Exod. xviii . 27 (see See also:EXODUS) and Num. x . 3o imply that the See also:scene was not See also:Sinai . Jethro was invited to accompany the See also:people into the promised See also:land, and later, we find his See also:clan settling in the See also:south of See also:Judah (Judg. i . 16); see See also:KENITES .

The traditions agree in representing the See also:

kin of Moses as related to the mixed tribes of the south of See also:Palestine (see EDoal) and in ascribing to the family an important See also:share in the See also:early development of the See also:worship of Yahweh . See also:Cheyne suggests that the names of Hobab and of Jonadab the See also:father of the See also:Rechabites (q.v.) were originally identical (Ency . Bib. ii. See also:col . 2101) .

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