“When 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;”
Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of everything God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. The opening verse establishes the reach of the Exodus story: it has traveled to Midian, to a foreign priest, to the family Moses left behind. Jethro hears everything and responds by coming to Moses. The Exodus is already functioning as the global testimony Exodus 9:16 declared it would be. Rahab in Joshua 2:10 and the Gibeonites in Joshua 9:9 will cite the same news. The God of the Hebrews has done things the whole world hears about, and what the world hears prompts movement toward Moses, toward Israel, toward the God who acts in history.
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