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Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God`s mountain, to Horeb.
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God's School of Humility
Commentators like Spurgeon and Calvin see Moses's 40 years as a shepherd not as wasted time, but as essential divine training. After 40 years in a palace, this period of solitude, hardship, and humble labor taught him patience, meekness, and contentment. This preparation was necessary to shape him into the shepherd-leader God's people needed.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Moses kept the flock. —The natural occupation of one who had thrown in his lot with the Midianites.
Jethro, his fat…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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