A shepherd and priest of the Kenites, a Midianite tribe of coppersmiths, with whom Moses took refuge during his flight from Egypt and whose daughter Zipporah he married (Exod 2: 15-22; 18: 1-12) Moses apparently identified Jethro's god, Yahweh, with El Shaddai, god of Israel's ancestors (Exod 3; 6; 18)