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Exodus 18:2

He took Sephora the wife of Moses whom he had sent back:

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
tulit Sephoram uxorem Moysi quam remiserat,
Septuagint (Swete)
ἔλαβεν δὲ Ἰοθὸρ ὁ γαμβρὸς Μωυσῆ Σεπφώραν τὴν γυναῖκα Μωυσῆ, μετὰ τὴν ἄφεσιν αὐτῆς,
Hebrew (WLC)
וַיִּקַּ֗ח יִתְרוֹ֙ חֹתֵ֣ן מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶת צִפֹּרָ֖ה אֵ֣שֶׁת מֹשֶׁ֑ה אַחַ֖ר שִׁלּוּחֶֽיהָ

Haydock's commentary

Back, with her consent, when he was going to the court of Pharao. (Menochius)

Since he had the vision of God, St. Epiphanius says, he lived in continence with her. (Hœr. 78.)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.