Exodus 2:21

World English Bible (2000)

Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

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  • Gen 31:38-40 : 38 "These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks. 39 That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
  • Exod 2:10 : 10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
  • Exod 4:20-25 : 20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand. 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go. 22 You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn, 23 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'" 24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."
  • Exod 18:2-6 : 2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, 3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land". 4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword." 5 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God. 6 He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."
  • Num 12:1 : 1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
  • Phil 4:11-12 : 11 Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. 12 I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
  • 1 Tim 6:6 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

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    1Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

    2Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

    3and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".

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    22She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

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

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

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

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

    6He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her."

    7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

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

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    25Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

    26So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

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

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    21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

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

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    16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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    21When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

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

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

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    10The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."

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    18Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."