參考版本 AFV  A  Faithful Version 的希臘文 2009版本   

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1. When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt,

2. Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,

3. And her two sons, of which the name of the one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a stranger in a strange land”),

4. And the name of the other was Eliezer (“for the God of my father, my Helper, delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

5. And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he camped at the mount of God.

6. And he said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you, with your wife and her two sons with her.”

7. And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down to him, and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare. And they came into the tent.

8. And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

9. And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom He had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

10. And Jethro said, “Blessed be the LORD Who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and Who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

11. Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, for in this matter they dealt arrogantly against them.”

12. Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. And Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

 (A Faithful Version)

1. 葉特羅，在米甸當祭司，是摩西的岳父，聽到大能者是如何協助摩西和以色列眾民，助他們離開埃及的事蹟。

2. 摩西的岳父葉特羅就前去埃及，把摩西的妻子西坡拉從埃及帶來。

3. 西坡拉的兩個兒子，一名革順（意思是寄居在異鄉的人），

4. 另一叫以利以謝（意思是我父親相信那位的幫助，救我脫離法老的威脅）。

5. 摩西的岳父葉特羅回去帶著摩西的妻兒到曠野與摩西相聚，摩西當時札營在大能者為他爭戰那山上。

6. 葉特羅在營外對摩西說：我是你岳父，現帶你妻子和兩個兒子，到來與你相聚。

7. 摩西立馬出去迎接，並向岳父跪下拜謝，親吻，彼此問候，然後進了帳篷。

8. 在營內，摩西將耶和華如何向法老要求把以色列人帶離埃及，以及一路以來遭遇的奇事，讓他岳父明白耶和華是如何一路護送。

9. 葉忒羅聽罷，都恩感耶和華帶領以色列人離開埃及的保守看顧。

10. 葉特羅全心讚美，說大能者是應當稱頌，因祂使以色列人脫離法老的魔手。

11. 因為耶和華的作為如此偉大，他就鄙視米甸所有的神址。

12. 葉特羅為此準備燔祭和平安祭給耶和華。亞倫也到來，和以色列眾長老，並摩西的岳父在壇前一起用膳。

摩西這段叙事，似乎對許多解經學者都不是全了解，因此有許許多不同的說法。

以下引文的網址可參考學者對這段描述的看法：

這網均觀點認為：Jethro appears to be portrayed as a monotheist who is a fellow worshiper of the God of the Hebrews.https://www.perspectivedigest.org/archive/28-3/the-faith-of-jethro-polytheist-or-monotheist

按文意也可以有另一種理解：葉特羅是聽完了摩西介紹大能者的作為，才讓這位在多神信仰的環境當中當祭司的人，在眾多神祉當中，真正認識大能者耶和華的作為，是如何有別於其他假神。

葉特羅的身份，這處有較詳細的分析：

https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jethro-2

在《出埃及記》中，葉特羅扮演多種角色。他被描繪成米甸的祭司，雖然「祭司」一詞在希伯來文中廣泛指涉與各種神靈相關的祭祀職責，但葉特羅這米甸祭司形象，卻因為摩西的見證，重新聚焦於希伯來人相信那位耶和華身上。葉特羅承認自己信仰希伯來人的神，並與摩西、亞倫和以色列的長老們一起帶領他們向祂獻祭。

葉特羅為何回埃及，可能因為譯文有異，就有許多不同的理解，這處也許能讓事件更為清晰。

摩西回埃及的緣因：出埃及記四章18- 20  摩西別過耶和華，回到他岳父葉特羅家，對他說：我要回去埃及，看我的家人是否仍舊活著。葉忒羅回應：儘管去就是。19. 此時摩西仍在米甸，自有永有者對他說：是時候回埃及去，那位想除掉你的法老人已經掛了。20. 於是摩西帶著妻兒，騎上驢，手持耶和華賜的枚回埃及去。如今岳父回去帶摩西的妻子回來相聚。

摩西出埃及時，沒有帶這一妻兩兒離去。(沒有家庭糾紛或夫妻不和的事件發生)