“And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.”
So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent. Moses bowing to Jethro is one of the most humanly tender scenes in Exodus. The man who stood before Pharaoh and said thus says the Lord goes out to meet his father-in-law and bows. The deference is genuine — Jethro is the elder, the father figure, the man who gave Moses a home when he had none. Genesis 33:3 records Jacob bowing to Esau on their reconciliation. Moses and Jethro's greeting is the embrace of a son returning to a father who received him as a refugee forty years earlier, now himself the leader of a nation.
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