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

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]

²⁴ On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the Lord confronted him and sought to put him to death.

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)

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.”