Exodus 2:22
She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
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21Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
Cross References
Exodus 4:20Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.
Exodus 22:21“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
1 Chronicles 23:14But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.
Psalms 39:12“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Acts 7:29Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger 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 →