¹⁵ And Pharaoh heard this matter, and he sought to kill Moses, and Moses fled from Pharaoh, and he lived in the land of Midian, and he lived at a certain well.^[a]

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.^{[b] 17} And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. ¹⁸ And they came to Reuel, their father, and he said, “Why have you come so quickly^[c] today?” ¹⁹ And they said, “An Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us and watered the flock.” ²⁰ And he said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why then^[d] have you left the man? Call him so that he can eat some food.”^{[e] 21} And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. ²² And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom because he said, “I am an alien in a foreign land.”^[f]