Exodus 2:20-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to share a meal.”(A) 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage.(B) 22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,[a] for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”(C)
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- 2.22 In Heb Gershom resembles the word for alien
Exodus 2:20-22
New International Version
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.”
Footnotes
- Exodus 2:22 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.
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