- verses
- 11
- first named
- Exodus 2:18
- last named
- Numbers 10:29
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Midian
Description
Who was Jethro?
Jethro, also referred to as Reuel, was Moses' father-in-law and a priest of Midian. He is first mentioned in Exo.2.18, where his daughters tell him about Moses defending them at a well. Later, in Exo.3.1, Moses is described as tending Jethro's flock when he encounters the burning bush.
After the Exodus, Jethro visits Moses in the wilderness, bringing along Moses' wife Zipporah and their two sons (Exo.18.1-6). Jethro praises God for the Israelites' deliverance from Egypt (Exo.18.9-10) and offers sacrifices to God (Exo.18.12).
Observing Moses' heavy workload in judging the people, Jethro advises him to appoint capable men to share the burden (Exo.18.13-23). Moses follows this advice and bids farewell to Jethro, who returns to his own land (Exo.18.24-27). In Num.10.29, Moses invites Hobab, identified as Reuel's son, to join the Israelites on their journey, suggesting a continued relationship between Moses and Jethro's family.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Associated with
Father of
- HobabregistryNumbers 10:29
- Zipporahregistry, no verse
Stands in the same events as
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Jethro is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
11 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (10) and Numbers (1).
3 further references are not verses of this edition — LXX.Exo.2.16, LXX.Exo.18.14, LXX.Jdg.1.16. A Septuagint address, a bracketed reading, or a compound string the source never resolves. Counted here rather than folded into the figure.
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 2 books. The name is written 12 times in them.
3 further references are to addresses this build does not carry — Septuagint verses, or compound strings the source never resolves. Attested where Atlas does not read is not attested nowhere.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources