Jethro his father-in-law - Or “brother-in-law.” The word in the Hebrew is a word signifying a relative by marriage. When Moses arrived in Mi…

Moses kept the flock. —The natural occupation of one who had thrown in his lot with the Midianites.

Jethro, his fat…

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the…

Now Moses kept the flock. We have already said that he was occupied as a shepherd for a long time (namely, about forty years) before this …

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the
priest of Midian
Who was ei…

The years of the life of Moses are divided into three periods of forty years: the first forty he spent as a prince in Pharaoh's court, the second a…