2Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
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And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)This incident may very well be allowed to have happened as it is placed here, before the giving of the law, and not, as some place it, in connection with what is recorded, Num. 10:11 , 29 Sacrifices were offered before; in these mentioned here (Exod. 18:12) it is observable that Jethro is said to take them, not Aaron . And as to Jethro’s advising Moses to constitute judges under him, though it is…
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