Exodus 18:27
Good News Translation
Then Moses said good-bye to Jethro, and Jethro went back home.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went off to his own country.

Contemporary English Version
After Moses and his father-in-law Jethro had said goodbye to each other, Jethro returned home.

New American Bible
Then Moses said farewell to his father-in-law, who went off to his own country.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his own country.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his own country.

Genesis 24:59 So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company.

Genesis 31:55 But Laban arose in the night, and kissed his sons and daughters, and blessed them: and returned to his place.

Numbers 10:29,30 And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel. . . .

Judges 19:9 And the young man arose to set forward with his wife and servant. And his father in law spoke to him again: Consider that the day is declining, and draweth toward evening: tarry with me to day also, and spend the day in mirth, and to morrow thou shalt depart, that thou mayest go into thy house.

Context
Jethro Advises Moses
26And they judged the people at all times: and whatsoever was of greater difficulty they referred to him, and they judged the easier cases only. 27And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his own country.
Cross References
Numbers 10:29
And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel.

Numbers 10:30
But he answered him: I will not go with thee, but I will return to my country, wherein I was born.

Exodus 18:26
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