Exodus 2:21
Therefore, Moses swore that he would live with him. And he accepted his daughter Zipporah as a wife.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
In Context
20But he said: “Where is he? Why have you dismissed the man? Call him, so that he may eat bread.”
Cross References
Genesis 31:38For what reason have I been with you for twenty years? Your ewes and she-goats were not barren; the rams of your flocks I did not consume.
Exodus 3:1Now Moses was pasturing the sheep of his father-in-law Jethro, a priest of Midian. And when he had driven the flock into the interior of the desert, he came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
Exodus 4:25For this reason, Zipporah took a very sharp stone, and she circumcised the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, “You are a bloody spouse to me.”
Numbers 10:29And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Midianite, his kinsman: “We are setting out to the place which the Lord will give to us. Come with us, so that we may do good to you. For the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”
Philippians 4:11I am not saying this as if out of need. For I have learned that, in whatever state I am, it is sufficient.
Hebrews 11:25choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, rather than to have the pleasantness of sin for a time,
Matthew Henry on Exodus 2:17-23
The Marriage of Moses. ( b. c. 1533.) 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. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 20 And… Read the whole commentary →