²³ “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart ^(A)to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. ²⁵ He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand. ^26 (B)And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’ ²⁷ But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ^(C)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ ²⁹ At this retort ^(D)Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, ^(E)where he became the father of two sons.

³⁰ “Now when forty years had passed, ^(F)an angel appeared to him ^(G)in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

^34 (A)quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, ^(B)became mighty in war, ^(C)put foreign armies to flight.

²⁷ By faith he ^(A)left Egypt, ^(B)not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured ^(C)as seeing him who is invisible.

¹⁴ He answered, ^(A)“Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” ¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But ^(B)Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by ^(C)a well.

¹⁶ Now the ^(D)priest of Midian had seven daughters, and ^(E)they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. ¹⁷ The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and ^(F)watered their flock. ¹⁸ When they came home to their father ^(G)Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” ¹⁹ They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and ^(H)watered the flock.” ²⁰ He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may ^(I)eat bread.” ²¹ And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter ^(J)Zipporah. ²² She gave birth to a son, and he called his name ^(K)Gershom, for he said, “I have been a ^(L)sojourner^[a] in a foreign land.”

³ along with her ^(A)two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (^(B)for he said, ^(C)“I have been a sojourner^[a] in a foreign land”), ⁴ and the name of the other, Eliezer^[b] (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).