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Title: Why did Yitro arrest Moshe?
Post by: Tag-MehirTzedek on December 18, 2013, 08:15:30 PM

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Title: Re: Why did Yitro arrest Moshe?
Post by: muman613 on December 18, 2013, 08:30:23 PM

I heard of this some years ago but I cannot remember enough to comment at this time. I am researching it...

Title: Re: Why did Yitro arrest Moshe?
Post by: muman613 on December 18, 2013, 08:38:53 PM

I have found a reference to a Medrash Shemot 168 in a footnote at this time:

http://www.meaningfullife.com/torah/holidays/3b/Incarcerated.php

[4]. Editor’s note: According to the Yalkut Shimoni (Shemot 168), Moses, who transmitted the Torah to humanity, was also a prisoner (of his future father-in-law, Jethro) in Midian for ten years.

Title: Re: Why did Yitro arrest Moshe?
Post by: muman613 on December 18, 2013, 08:40:23 PM

http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/811478/jewish/Interpolated-Translation.htm

21 Moses consented to stay with the man, but when Moses told Jether about his adventures in Ethiopia, he suspected him of lying, and imprisoned him. After ten years, when Moses was 77, Jether released him from prison and gave Moses his daughter Zipporah as a wife.64 He made Moses tend his sheep and swear that he would not leave Midian without his permission.