Exodus 2:21

And Mosheh was willing to dwell with the man; and he gave Zipporah his daughter unto Mosheh.

Targum Onkelos

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? Wherefore have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

22And she bare a son; and he called his name Gershom; for, said he, I am a stranger in a foreign land.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:38These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy goats have not failed, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten.

Exodus 3:1And Mosheh tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the rabba of Midian, and he led the flock to the place of the best pastures of the wilderness, and came to the mountain on which was revealed the glory of the Lord, unto Horeb.

Exodus 4:25And Zipporah took a stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and approached before him, and said, On account of the blood of this circumcision let my husband be given (back) to me.

Numbers 10:29And Mosheh said unto Hobab bar Reuel, the Midianite, the father-in-law of Mosheh, We are journeying to the place of which the Lord hath said, I will give it unto you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the Lord hath spoken, to bring good upon 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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