EXOD285 To this day, a Hebrew expression that is associated with Orthodox Jews is Baruch Hashem ("Blessed is the Lord"). Thus, when one asks an Orthodox Jew how he or she is doing, the person often will answer, "Baruch Hashem" (which is intended to convey that everything is as God wills). Yet few Jews realize that this expression, which comes from the Torah, is used there exclusively by non-Israelites. Perhaps its most well-known usage is by Jethro who, when he hears Moses tell about the miraculous escape of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, comments: "Baruch Hashem who delivered you from the Egyptians and from Pharaoh…" [this verse]. Earlier in the Torah, Noah uses this expression as well Genesis 9:26, as does Abraham's servant (assumed to be Eliezer; Genesis 24:27. In Genesis 14:20, the non-Israelite King Melchizedek uses a variant of this expression.