When a girl was eight to ten years old, she began leading the family herd out to nearby pasture. Follow Christ's journey to the Cross. I wonder how often Jethros daughters endured the scenario of laboriously filling the watering troughs from the well, pitcher-full by pitcher-full, only to have their flocks pushed aside by surly shepherds, too lazy to draw their own water. One day Jethro was walking home and he was stopped by Mr. Burdow, the father of the boy who killed Jethro's sister. hal Ketchums daughters names are; Sarah,Rosie,Ruby and Sophia What are the names of Bruce and Kris Jenners daughters? Jethro had seven daughters who served as his shepherdesses. One of these women will shortly be named as she is given to Moses for a wife Zipporah. Therefore, I believe that Reuel and Jethro are one person: Moses' father-in-law and Hobab is Moses' brother-in-law. Moses has in the meantime become powerful and famous, and Jethro gives him useful advice on how to govern (Exodus 18:17ff). &"Daily Bible Study--Jethro", Wayne Blank. However, this would also force the character called Hobab into the role of Moses' father-in-law, which while seeming to work just fine raises difficulties later on when considering that Hobab is recorded as staying with the Israelites as a guide after their exodus from Egypt while Jethro is recorded as returning home. There are cases of them even contradicting scripture and they certainly all contradict each other. JETHRO , Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses. Surely this is a task he would entrust to women from another ethnic identity? Rated: Fiction T - English - Romance/Family - Jenny Shepard, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Tony D., Ziva D. - Chapters: 17 - Words: . 25 and Soah 43a, 1585 Ottoman expedition against the Druze, 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus, "Judges 4 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre", http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=258&letter=J&search=Jethro#1035, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jethro_(biblical_figure)&oldid=1141358319, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 17:31. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. Sometime in the early 1990's, he created The Leroy Jethro Gibbs Scholarship Fund. Moses father-in-law, a Kenite. It is, however, generallyaccepted that he had seven names: "Reuel," "Jether," "Jethro," "Hobab," "Heber," "Keni" (comp. Because they were foreign? 8. Jethro was the priest of Midian. Being head of a large family of at least seven daughters and one named son (Ex 2:15, 16; Nu 10:29), and having the responsibility not only to provide for his family materially but also to lead them in worship, he is appropriately called the priest [or chieftain] of Midian. This of itself does not necessarily indicate worship of Jehovah God; but Jethros ancestors may have had true worship inculcated in them, and some of this perhaps continued in the family. Then, as he falls in the well, the girls try to save him by pulling the rope up and Tzipporah helps them. By submitting above, you agree to our privacy policy. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. The baby is the centre of the story here, but there are three women who contrive to save his life, two of whom we will later learn are Yocheved his mother and Miriam his sister. 16, iv. When Moses said to Jethro, "Give me your daughter Tzipporah as a wife", Jethro answered, "If you do what I ask of you, I will give her to you as a wife." Moses said: "What do you ask?" Jethro replied: "Your first son must serve idolatry. Josephus in his Antiquities (1st Century) describes the women as Egyptian midwives who served the Hebrew women. Reuel is noted Exodus 2:16, as "a priest of Midian" who had seven daughters. Pearl is Jethro's mother. Your email address will not be published. the book of Job. pseudo-Jonathan to Ex. Let's tackle who Reuel is first. Shifra and Puah disobey the Royal decree, because , the text tells us, they feared/revered God. Jephthah was a leader in Israel during the time of the Judges. The foreground is a tangle of boldly foreshortened naked bodies, in which the pained grimace of the man on the right stands out, or the anger of the man who is rushing to the left with a veil blown by the wind around his body, a quote of classical art. I am sending you to lead my people out of his country. Jethro is revered as the chief prophet in the Druze religion. United States. The rabbis identify Putiel with Jethro and give two homiletical interpretations of the name, one praiseworthy and the other . In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro (/dro/; Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"SBL Hebrew","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Taamey Frank CLM","Frank Ruehl CLM","Ezra SIL","Ezra SIL SR","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}, Modern:Ytr, Tiberian:Yr, lit. A vengeful cartel member tracked them down and shot the agent in the head. LONDON - 1955: Jethro's daughters, portrayed by Lisa Mitchell, Noelle WIlliams, Joanna Merlin, Pat Richard, Joyce Vanderven and Diane Hall, during the filming of "The Ten Commandments" by Cecil B. DeMille at studios in London, England. ,) was a Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses . Because they were women? And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their fathers flock. So God let him alone, and she said A bridegroom of blood in regard to circumcision. Feature films Books: Read-Along, Moses God Aaron Ramses Amun Baka Dathan Hotep and Huy Jacob Jethro Jethro's daughters Joshua Kahma Miriam Nefretiri Neria Sheti I Shepherds The Angel of Death Tuya Tzipporah Yocheved, All I Ever Wanted (Reprise) Deliver Us I Will Get There Playing With the Big Boys Now The Plagues Through Heaven's Eyes When You Believe. Jethro appears to have many names throughout the Torah. COPYRIGHT 2023 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY 5614 Connecticut Ave NW #343, Washington DC 20015-2604. JETHRO KENITES The descendants of Jethro, a Midianite, the father MOSES : Joins himself to Jethro, priest of Midian; marries his daughter Zipporah; has one son, Gershom (Exodus 2:15-22) MOSES : Is a herdsman for Jethro in the desert of Horeb MOSES : With his wife and sons, he leaves Jethro to perform his mission in Egypt (Exodus 4:18-20 . He is also considered an ancestor of the Druze;[8] as is expressed by such prominent Druze as Amal Nasser el-Din,[28] and according to Salman Tarif, who was a prominent Druze shaykh, this makes the Druze related to the Jews through marriage. [7], There is a pendant, Rebecca in the Well almost certainly a copy of Rosso attributed to Giovanni Antonio Lappoli, in the National Museum of the Royal Palace, in Pisa[6], The painting represents the biblical episode of Exodus (I, 1622), when the seven daughters of Jethro, a priest of the land of Midian, were harassed by a group of Midianite shepherds as they draw water from a well to water their father's flock. So, how come they were in Midian? Voice These hardy sheep were good grazers, but the quality of their wool is inferior by todays standard. Or was it because of the defeat the Israelites inflicted on their enemies, the Amalekites? vi. It is this image which Marcel Proust used to describe the love of Charles Swann's life, Odette de Crcy. He had the knowledge and experience to build and handle herds numbering many thousands of animals. Rachel and another seven years for Leah. He was also identified as Hobab in the Book of Numbers 10:29. He disciplined subordinate shepherds and dealt with thieves. At the inception of Wiesels Supporting Roles series in Bible Review, BAS editors wrote: We are pleasedand honoredto present our readers with the first of a series of insightful essays by Elie Wiesel, the world-renowned author and human rights advocate. Tzipporah's sisters Ephorah: "That's why Papa says she'll never get married. [7], The work does have a very original compositional system, in which the prophet has a fully active and violent role in driving away the shepherds. I leave the reader to decide. Background information "[31] These girls are first heard when Moses witness them being bullied, so he saves them by distracting the water brigands with their camels. Then the Holy Name was glorified on all sides (The Zohar, by Daniel Matt, vol. The first is that Reuel is simply another name for Jethro, much like Jacob also being named Israel (both of which were used interchangeably). PUTIEL (Heb. Shifra (from the root ) means something along the lines of beauty/clarity but the root also gives us the noun shofar the horn that is blown to call to attention. The second idea is that Reuel could be the father of the clan (or household) and the daughters of Jethro were, therefore, attributed to Reuel. Another interesting fact is that Jethro comes to meet Moses at Sinai bringing him his wife and children. Even when he refuses Moses invitation to stay with him, he has the perfect excuse, says the midrash: I will return to my own people and convert them all to the study of the Torah.. From this interpretation emerged all the midrashim and commentary (and Masoretic vocalisation) that Shifra and Puah were both Hebrew women and of the family of Moses. For all its faults, it was a nation which exhibited the quality which Jewish monarchy requires. Once the baby is grown, he is brought back to the daughter of Pharaoh who names him Moses, because, bible reports, I drew him out of the water. He who said a women and her mother in law: they were Yocheved and Elisheva. (BT Sotah 11b). 7; Mek., Yitro, 'Amale, 1; Tan., Shemot, 11; comp. Jethro is a naturally kind, jovial, good-natured man, who is faithful and optimistic. The conception of the painting was certainly influenced by the richess of ideas for the nude moving figures in the cartoon of Michelangelo of the now lost Battle of Cascina, and by the expressive force of the also lost The Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci, both destined for the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Once they saw him come and worship the Blessed Holy One, saying Now I know that YHVH is greater than all gods (Exodus 18:11), they all withdrew from their idols, realizing that these lacked any substance. When the Hebrews were at mount Sinai, he visited Moses, gave him some wise counsel as to the government of the tribes, and then returned to his own people. They put these words in Jethros mouth: I have served many idols; there is no god I have not served; but none can compare to the God of Israel. To emphasize his worth, he is compared to Esau. Jacob and his sons must have passed on this knowledge to their descendants while in captivity, but was it retained and carried out into the wilderness after the first Passover? Royalty-free Creative Video Editorial . Jethro is called a priest of Midian and became father-in-law of Moses after he gave his daughter, Zipporah, in marriage to Moses. and strong. While he does not challenge the midwives version of the story he extends the diktat to all of the people. "Moses' father-in-law," a shepherd-prince or priest of Midian, Exodus 3:1 4:18 18:1-27. The Enduring Olive Tree and its Precious Fruit: From Modern Day to AncientPast1. vi. 2, p.92, footnote 695). This is a possibility that can be conjoined with the first option (Reuel and Jethro being two names for the same individual). Technically a shepherd is different than a sheepherder, although they share some of the same duties. He saved them and watered their flocks for them. Their names are understood as more likely to be Semitic than Egyptian. [30] The Israeli Druze also have a folktale called "Jethro's revenge on the [Sunni Muslim] inhabitants of the village of Hittin. In the land of Midian, Moses, on his way to a well, rescued Jethro's seven daughters from the hands of the evil shepherds. In Yithros days, there became an Israelite faith which long postdated the term Jews, let along the variant of todays Judaic faiths. Dreamworks Animation Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Bodelian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 2708, Folio 39VA good man? Many people in town realize what he did and they were angered. Because they were necessary to Moses survival and pivotal in the narrative arc? Jethro means: eminent. Biblical Archaeology Review is the guide on that fascinating journey. Did the Ancient Israelites Think Children Were People. Having said all this, even though Jethro has no detractors, he does inspire a certain skepticism in some. Happily, Rebekah, Rachel, Leah, Zipporah and other ladies who spun the Awassi fleece had nothing to compare it with. He also had five daughters. ", Tektonics,http://www.tektonics.org/lp/mosdad.html. Jethro rejoiced at all the goodness that the Lord had shown to Israel. Jethros son Hobab was requested by Moses to be a scout. From a modern perspective we need to ask why the tradition chooses to narrow down how the text is read so that named and autonomous Egyptian women become Hebrew women whose introduction to us is only in relation to the men. By Sophie McEvoy / June 27, 2021 9:18 pm EST. 23After the death of the king of Egypt, the Israelites still complained because they were forced to be slaves. This online publication is adapted from Wiesels article Supporting Roles: Jethro, which was published in Bible Review in June 1998. Cornwall, Jethro's popularity as a comedian grew during the 1980s and he made his first national . (Jethro) [from a root meaning more than enough; overflow]. He determined which animals to slaughter and sell. At night the animals were housed in stone-walled pens attached to buildings or compounds, or on the ground floor of houses in the cities,[1] or corralled in thorny, fence-like enclosures typical of nomadic enclosures. Access to water was a source of contention (Genesis 26:12-33). The name Jethro is primarily a male name of Hebrew origin that means Abundance. The Biblical manuscripts are some of the most reliable ancient texts that are in existence. 17Some shepherds tried to chase them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their animals. Their names are Ephorah (older), Ajolidoforah (middle), and Jethrodiadah (youngest). I feel sorry for them, 8and I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. In the midrashic literature,a as always, the character, or rather the attitude toward the character, seems more complex. In fact, Moses appears furious and half-naked in the center of the composition, while raging on the bodies of his rivals. The narrator then tells us that God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. Because they took risks and made their own decisions against the power of the Pharaoh? b. Matt says he is fine and wants to go into town looking for the man that tried to hurt Jethro. He kills an Egyptian. When Moses fled from Egypt he came to the well in Midian where he witnessed local shepherds mistreating the girls. He held this position up until March 2021 when he was suspended with his second-in-command, NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee succeeding him as the agent in charge . It was a mammoth undertaking, especially as Proust was gay: He constantly had to translate heterosexual . It does not say how old he was when he left Egypt. Gershom means "sojourner there.". But there were well over 1.5 million. Yet, we know Jethro was a descendent of . The scene is essentially tripartite on three levels, but the complexity of the articulation binds the plans with continuous references, subverting the traditional Renaissance balances. When called to account by Pharaoh this is not what they tell him, instead they say the Hebrew women are like animals () and before the midwives can get to them they have already delivered their babies. There, he witnessed shepherds harassing women trying to water their own flocks at a well, and Moses came to the women's . There is some disagreement over the name(s) of Moses' father-in-law. Ajolidoforah is the middle-in-length sister who has curly bangs and wears a magenta dress with gold jewelry and a yellow veil on her head. The Pharaoh himself is mentioned in Ezekiel 29:3 as a mighty dragon sprawling in your channels. In this view the Pharaohs power derives from the crocodile god Sobek with the Nile being its dominion. Jethro (Heb. He was made to work for seven years for Also in the Zohar (1:93b) that borrows a tradition from the Midrash Aggada on Exodus 4:24, about the bizarre incident in which Yahweh attempts to kill Moses, involves an angel which assumes the form of a serpent and swallowed up Moses from his head to his covenant [of circumcision, i.e., his phallus] (The Zohar, vol. AndJethrodiadah is the shortest sister who wears a pink robe with a teal shawl covering her face. CONTENT. Even though Esau was a kinsman of Jacob, he was less favored than the alien Jethro. This is important because the identity of the women as either Hebrew or Egyptian relies on the vocalisation of the letters of the two words . Parashat Shemot names some strong women without whom Moses would not havesurvived. Moses would not have entreated an 80 year old man, Reuel (one who was in need of the strength and vigor to drive away desert dwelling Bedouins competing for water) to be a scout for Israel. The next thing we know is that Moses, having killed an Egyptian taskmaster for hurting an Israelite man, is fleeing for his life from the anger of Pharaoh, and now we meet seven more unidentified women the seven daughters of Reuel, priest of Midian. Having fled to Midian, Moses intervened in a water-access dispute between Jethro's seven daughters and the local shepherds; Jethro consequently invited Moses into his home and offered him hospitality. Genesis 29:16-27. Wiesel is best known for his numerous books on the Holocaust and for his profiles of Biblical figures and Hasidic masters. Many are unnamed and described only in their relationship to men : We meet the daughter of the tribe of Levi who marries a man of Levi at the beginning of Chapter 2.