Exodus 2:21

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

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  • Gen 31:38-40 : 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
  • Exod 2:10 : 10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
  • Exod 4:20-25 : 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. 21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. 22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: 23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn. 24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
  • Exod 18:2-6 : 2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: 5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: 6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
  • Num 12:1 : 1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
  • Phil 4:11-12 : 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
  • 1 Tim 6:6 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

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  • Exod 18:1-3
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    80%

    1When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;

    2Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

    3And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

  • Exod 2:22
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    22And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

  • Exod 2:20
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    20And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.

  • Exod 2:15-16
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    72%

    15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

    16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

  • Lev 10:20
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    20And when Moses heard that, he was content.

  • Exod 18:5-8
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    5And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

    6And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

    7And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.

    8And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

  • Exod 4:25-26
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    71%

    25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

    26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

  • Num 25:6
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    6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Exod 18:24
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    24So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.

  • Gen 21:21
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    21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

  • Acts 7:29
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    29Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

  • Exod 3:1
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    1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

  • Num 25:16
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    16And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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    4And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.

  • Acts 7:21
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    21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

  • Exod 18:27
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    27And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

  • Exod 4:20
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    20And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

  • Exod 2:1
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    1And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

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    16Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

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    40And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

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    29And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.

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    10Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

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    68%

    10And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

  • Exod 4:18
    68%

    18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.