Exodus 2:22

She bore a son, and Moses called his name Gershom; he said, “I have been a resident in a foreign land.”

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And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

In Context

21Moses agreed to stay with the man, who also gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.

23A long time later, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out for help, and their pleas went up to God because of their bondage.

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Cross References

Exodus 4:20Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on a donkey. He returned to the land of Egypt, and he took the staff of God in his hand.

Exodus 22:21You must not wrong a foreigner or oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

1 Chronicles 23:14But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were considered to be Levites.

Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and listen to me; 1 listen to my weeping! 1 Do not be deaf to me, 1 for I am like a foreigner with you, a refugee like all my ancestors were. 1

Acts 7:29Moses ran away after hearing this; he became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

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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