²⁴ So Moses heeded the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

⁵ Then Ezra arose, and made the leaders of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel ^(A)swear an oath that they would do according to this word. So they swore an oath.

² And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra, “We have ^(A)trespassed^[a] against our God, and have taken pagan wives from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope in Israel in spite of this.

¹⁹ Listen now to my voice; I will give you ^[a]counsel, and God will be with you: Stand ^(A)before God for the people, so that you may ^(B)bring the difficulties to God.

² Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took ^(A)Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, ³ with her ^(B)two sons, of whom the name of one was ^[a]Gershom (for he said, ^(C)“I have been a ^[b]stranger in a foreign land”) ⁴ and the name of the other was ^[c]Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my ^(D)help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”); ⁵ and Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at ^(E)the mountain of God.