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(B) in a foreign land.”[a]

23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out;(C) and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor.

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Footnotes

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

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