²¹ Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave ^(A)Zipporah his daughter to Moses.

⁵ Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ^(A)“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

³⁸ These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock. ^39 (A)That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. ^(B)You required it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. ⁴⁰ There I was! In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

¹⁰ but the rich in his humiliation, because ^(A)as a flower of the field he will pass away.

²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the ^[a]passing pleasures of sin,

⁶ Now godliness with ^(A)contentment is great gain.

¹¹ Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, ^(A)to be content: ^12 (B)I know how to ^[a]be abased, and I know how to ^[b]abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

² Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took ^(A)Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, ³ with her ^(B)two sons, of whom the name of one was ^[a]Gershom (for he said, ^(C)“I have been a ^[b]stranger in a foreign land”) ⁴ and the name of the other was ^[c]Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my ^(D)help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”); ⁵ and Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at ^(E)the mountain of God. ⁶ Now he had said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her.”

²⁰ Then Moses ^(A)took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took ^(B)the rod of God in his hand.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those ^(C)wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But ^(D)I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. ²² Then you shall ^(E)say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^(F)“Israel is My son, ^(G)My firstborn. ²³ So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed ^(H)I will kill your son, your firstborn.” ’ ”

²⁴ And it came to pass on the way, at the ^(I)encampment, that the Lord ^(J)met him and sought to ^(K)kill him. ²⁵ Then ^(L)Zipporah took ^(M)a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and ^[a]cast it at ^[b]Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a husband of blood to me!”