21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah(A) to Moses in marriage.

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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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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:22 In Hb the name Gershom sounds like the phrase “a stranger there.”

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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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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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 4:25 Some interpret “feet” as a euphemism for genitals.

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.

Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah,(B) Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, 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) and the other Eliezer (because he had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword”).[b]

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) 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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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 18:3 In Hb the name Gershom sounds like the phrase “a stranger there.”
  2. Exodus 18:4 = My God Is Help

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