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Jethro Visits Moses

18 Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken back Moses’ wife Zipporah after she had been sent away, along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom, because he would say, “I was an alien[a] in a foreign land,”

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  1. Exodus 18:3 The Heb. word for alien (ger ) sounds like Gershom

Jethro Visits Moses

18 Now Jethro,(A) the priest of Midian(B) and father-in-law of Moses, heard of everything God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.(C)

After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah,(D) his father-in-law Jethro received her and her two sons.(E) One son was named Gershom,[a] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land”;(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 18:3 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.