Exodus 2:21
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21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah(A) to Moses in marriage.
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Exodus 2:22
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22 She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom, for he said, “I have been a foreigner(A) in a foreign land.”[a]
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- Exodus 2:22 In Hb the name Gershom sounds like the phrase “a stranger there.”
Exodus 4:24
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24 On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the Lord confronted him and sought to put him to death.
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Exodus 4:25
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25 So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son’s foreskin, and threw it at Moses’ feet.[a] Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me!”(A)
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- Exodus 4:25 Some interpret “feet” as a euphemism for genitals.
Exodus 18:1-6
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Jethro’s Visit
18 Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian,(A) heard about everything that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.
2 Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah,(B) Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, 3 along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (because Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”)[a](C) 4 and the other Eliezer (because he had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword”).[b]
5 Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.(D) 6 He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
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- Exodus 18:3 In Hb the name Gershom sounds like the phrase “a stranger there.”
- Exodus 18:4 = My God Is Help
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