Crossword-Solution: JETHRO 6 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Now, therefore, if it seem good in thine eyes, leave off from destroying the children of Israel, and if it be not thy will that they dwell in Egypt, send them forth from here, that they may go to the land of Canaan, the land wherein their ancestors sojourned." When Pharaoh heard the words of Jethro-Reuel, he was exceedingly wroth with him, and he was dismissed in disgrace from before the king, and he went to Midian.

But fearing to return to Egypt on account of Pharaoh, Moses journeyed to Midian.[80] JETHRO In the city of Midian, named thus for a son of Abraham by Keturah,[81] the man Jethro had lived for many years, doing a priest's service before the idols.

Suspecting Jethro's hidden motives, the people put him under the ban, and none might venture to do him the slightest service.

Not even would the shepherds pasture his flocks, and there was nothing for him to do but impose this work upon his seven daughters.[82] Jethro's transformation from an idolatrous priest into a God-fearing man is conveyed by his seven names.

Hobab, "the beloved son of God"; Reuel, "the friend of God"; Heber, "the associate of God"; Putiel, "he that hath renounced idolatry"; and Keni, he that was "zealous" for God, and "acquired" the Torah.[83] In consequence of the hostile relation between Jethro and the inhabitants of the city, his daughters were in the habit of making their appearance at the watering troughs before the other shepherds came thither.