Antiquities of the Jews
by Flavius Josephus
Book III, Chapter 3
That Moses Kindly Received-His Father-In-Law, Jethro, When He Came To Him To Mount Sinai
Now when Raguel, Moses's father-in-law, understood in what a
prosperous condition his affairs were, he willingly came to meet
him. And Moses and his children, and pleased himself with his
coming. And when he had offered sacrifice, he made a feast for
the multitude, near the Bush he had formerly seen; which
multitude, every one according to their families, partook of the
feast. But Aaron and his family took Raguel, and sung hymns to
God, as to Him who had been the author procurer of their
deliverance and their freedom. They also praised their
conductor, as him by whose virtue it was that all things had
succeeded with them. Raguel also, in his eucharistical oration
to Moses, made great encomiums upon the whole multitude; and he
could not but admire Moses for his fortitude, and that humanity
he had shewn in the delivery of his friends.
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