Exodus 2:21

And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he gives his daughter Zipporah to Moses,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

In Context

20and he says to his daughters, “And where [is] he? Why [is] this [that] you left the man? Call for him, and he eats bread.”

22and she bears a son, and he calls his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a strange land.”

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Cross References

Genesis 31:38These twenty years I [am] with you: your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten;

Exodus 3:1And Moses has been feeding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, priest of Midian, and he leads the flock behind the wilderness, and comes to the mountain of God, to Horeb;

Exodus 4:25and Zipporah takes a flint, and cuts off the foreskin of her son, and causes [it] to touch his feet, and says, “You [are] surely a bridegroom of blood to me”;

Numbers 10:29And Moses says to Hobab son of Raguel the Midianite, father-in-law of Moses, “We are journeying to the place of which YHWH has said, I give it to you; go with us, and we have done good to you, for YHWH has spoken good concerning Israel.”

Philippians 4:11I do not say that in respect of want, for I learned in the things in which I am—to be content;

Hebrews 11:25having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin’s pleasure for a season,

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 →

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