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What was the relationship between Jethro and Zipporah?

Zipporah was one of the seven daughters of Jethro. Jethro gave her to Moses as his wife. Exodus 2:16, 21

What the Bible says

Exodus 2:20

But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.

Exodus 2:21

And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

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Later, Jethro brought Zipporah and her two sons to Moses, in the desert. Exodus 18:2-5

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