Subject: moses married how many times |
Bible Note: Hi there again: If we read the Verses that our brother Searcher gives us Exo 2:21 we can find that in Exo. 2:21 says...Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. But if we go back to verse 18 of the same chapter, 2 it reads as follow...And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon today? And if we continue reading throughout the parallels we can go to the next verse that in this case is Num 10:29, and we can see here that it says... And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law...but in here we can see that the name of his father in law is different also, now continuing with the parallels in Judge 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, and the other parallel of this verse is also Ex 2:18 which explains to us that the man that we have being reading all along is the same Jethro father in law of Moses. Now, for all of us that have read the continuous chapters in Exo 3:1 we can see that in here ...Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian Continuing with the other verse that follows, Num 12:1 -KJV-And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. and in: Num 12:1 ASV-And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. over here we can see that they are 2 different versions of bibles but they are both talking about the same woman which if we go to the parallel for that verse it would be Exo 2:18. So at the end we can see that, Moses was actually married only once, with Zipporah the daughter of: 1-Reuel, 2-Raguel the Midianite, 3-Hobab 4-Jethro. Now, if we take a look at what we have read we can conclude one of tow things, first that Moses was indeed married twice for what we read in: Exo 2:21 and, Num 12:1 But then if we go by what the rest of the verses -parallels- say about his father-in-law. We can also believe that he also had 3 or 4 father-in-laws, but then, how can we explain that he had 4 father-in-laws, if he only married twice? Pray to God this could be of help to all, the same way it has helped me. I thank God for this forum because the more we read the more we learn. God bless ALL! Humble servant of God, Jesus777 |