20 So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may (A)eat bread.”

21 Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave (B)Zipporah his daughter to Moses. 22 And she bore him a son. He called his name (C)Gershom,[a] for he said, “I have been (D)a [b]stranger in a foreign land.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:22 Lit. Stranger There
  2. Exodus 2:22 sojourner, temporary resident

20 “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”(A)

21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah(B) to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[a](C) saying, “I have become a foreigner(D) in a foreign land.”

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  1. Exodus 2:22 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.