Exodus 2:21
Moses agreed to stay with the man, who arranged for his daughter Zipporah to marry Moses.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
In Context
22She had a son, and Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I'm an exile living in a foreign country.”
Cross References
Genesis 31:38I've worked for you for these past twenty years. During that time none of your sheep and goats miscarried, and I haven't eaten a single ram from your flock.
Exodus 3:1Moses was a shepherd, looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the Midianite priest. He led the flock far into the wilderness until he came to God's mountain, Mount Horeb.
Exodus 4:25However, Zipporah used a flint knife to cut off her son's foreskin. She touched his feet with it, and said to him, “You are a blood-husband to me.”
Numbers 10:29Moses explained to Hobab, the son of Moses' father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We're leaving for the place of which the Lord promised, ‘I'm going to give it to you.’ Come with us, and we'll be good to you, because the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”
Philippians 4:11I'm not talking about my own needs, because I've already learned to be satisfied in whatever situation I find myself.
Hebrews 11:25Instead he chose to share in the sufferings of God's people rather than to enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin.
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 →