Exodus 18:6

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He said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land from which God had delivered Israel, making it the backdrop to Moses’ reunion with his family after the exodus. Midian, east or southeast of the Sinai region, was Jethro’s homeland and the place where Moses had lived in exile before God called him.

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Exodus 18:6 mentions Egypt and Midian.

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