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Exodus 2:21-23
International Standard Version
Exodus 2:21-23
International Standard Version
21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.[a] 22 Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses[b] named him Gershom,[c] because he used to say, “I became an alien in a foreign land.”
The Israelis Cry Out to God
23 The king of Egypt eventually[d] died, and the Israelis groaned because of the bondage. They cried out, and their cry for deliverance from slavery ascended to God.
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- Exodus 2:21 The Heb. lacks in marriage
- Exodus 2:22 Lit. he
- Exodus 2:22 Gershom sounds like Heb. for alien
- Exodus 2:23 Lit. It happened after those many days that the king of Egypt
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