Jethro
Jethro (Hebrew: יתרו), who is called Reguel or Reuel in other passages (Ex 2:18), was, according to the account from the 2nd Book of Moses, a priest or priest-king from Midian to whom Moses fled after the Egyptian Pharaoh sought his life because Moses, in anger over the oppression of his people, had slain an overseer. Jethro lived near the Holy Mount Horeb, where YHWH later revealed himself as the I Am to Moses from the burning bush. Jethro had seven daughters, the eldest of whom, Zipporah, he gave in marriage to Moses and thus became his father-in-law. Reguel's son Hobab is mentioned as Moses' brother-in-law (Judges 4:11; Num 10:29). The tomb of Jethro is venerated - especially by the Druze - in Hittin, which lies about 8 km north of today's Tiberias in Galilee.
„15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock. 18 When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” 19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.” 20 He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. 22 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”“
Literature
- Rudolf Steiner: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die großen Fragen des Daseins, GA 60 (1983), ISBN 3-7274-0600-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Das Markus-Evangelium, GA 139 (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1390-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Wege zu einem neuen Baustil, GA 286 (1982), ISBN 3-7274-2860-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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