Exodus 2:21

And Moses was established with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses to wife.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 said to his daughters, And where is he? and why have ye left the man? call him therefore, that he may eat bread.

22And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gershom, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:38These twenty years have I been with thee; thy sheep, and thy she-goats have not failed in bearing; I devoured not the rams of thy cattle.

Exodus 3:1And Moses was feeding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he brought the sheep nigh to the wilderness, and came to the mount of Horeb.

Exodus 4:25And Zipporah having taken a stone cut off the foreskin of her son, and fell at his feet and said, The blood of the circumcision of my son is staunched:

Numbers 10:29And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, We are going forward to the place concerning which the Lord said, This will I give to you: Come with us, and we will do thee good, for the Lord has spoken good concerning Israel.

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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