1. Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything God had done for Moses and his people, the Israelites. He heard especially about how the lord had rescued them from Egypt.
2. Earlier, Moses had sent his wife, Zipporah, and his two sons back to Jethro, who had taken them in.
3. (Moses’ first son was named Gershom, for Moses had said when the boy was born, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”