¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard about it, he tried to kill Moses.

But Moses ran away from Pharaoh and settled down in the land of Midian. One day Moses was sitting by a well. ¹⁶ Now there was a Midianite priest who had seven daughters. The daughters came to draw water and fill the troughs so that their father’s flock could drink. ¹⁷ But some shepherds came along and rudely chased them away. Moses got up, rescued the women, and gave their flock water to drink.

¹⁸ When they went back home to their father Reuel,^[a] he asked, “How were you able to come back home so soon today?”

¹⁹ They replied, “An Egyptian man rescued us from a bunch of shepherds. Afterward, he even helped us draw water to let the flock drink.”

²⁰ Reuel said to his daughters, “So where is he? Why did you leave this man? Invite him to eat a meal with us.”

²¹ Moses agreed to come and live with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses as his wife. ²² She gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, “because,” he said, “I’ve been an immigrant^[b] living in a foreign land.”