Exodus 2:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Moses was content to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

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  • Gen 31:38-40 : 38 These twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn by beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it; from my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
  • Exod 2:10 : 10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, Because I pulled him out of the water.
  • Exod 4:20-25 : 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. 21 And the LORD said to Moses, When you go to return to Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. 22 And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn. 23 And I say to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me, and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your son, even your 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 are you 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 whom the name of the one was Gershom, for he said, I have been a stranger in a foreign land. 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer, for the God of my father, he said, was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. 5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mount of God. 6 And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, am come to you, and your wife, and her two sons with her.
  • Num 12:1 : 1 And Miriam and Aaron spoke 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 whatever state I am, to be content. 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I have learned 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 passing pleasures of sin,
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with what you have. For He has said, 'I will never leave you, nor forsake you.'
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

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

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

    3 And her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom, for he said, I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

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    22 And she bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

  • Exod 2:20
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    20 And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

  • Exod 2:15-16
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    15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

    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.

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    20 When Moses heard that, he was satisfied.

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    5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mount of God.

    6 And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, am come to you, and your wife, and her two sons with her.

    7 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down, and kissed him; and they asked each other about their well-being; and they went into the tent.

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

  • Exod 4:25-26
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    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 are you to me.

    26 So he let him go, then she said, A bloody husband you are, because of the circumcision.

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    24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he said.

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    21 And he lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

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    29 Then Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.

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    21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and brought him up as her own son.

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    27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way to his own land.

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    20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

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    10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, Because I pulled him out of the water.

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