Exodus 2:22

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Acts 7:29 : 29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
  • Heb 11:13-14 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
  • Exod 22:21 : 21 "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Chr 16:20 : 20 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
  • 1 Chr 23:14-17 : 14 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi. 15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. 16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. 17 The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.
  • 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 18:3-4 : 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."

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  • Exod 18:1-6
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    1 Now 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.

    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."

  • Exod 2:19-21
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    19 They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

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

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

  • Acts 7:29
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    29 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

  • Exod 2:9-11
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    9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it.

    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."

    11 It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

  • 1 Chr 23:15
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    15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

  • Exod 2:23
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    23 It happened in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

  • Exod 2:2
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    2 The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.

  • Acts 7:20-21
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    20 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.

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

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

  • Exod 2:15-16
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    15 Now 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.

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  • Exod 6:4
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    4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

  • Exod 4:24-26
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    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."

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

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    8 Moses 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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    1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

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    19 Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

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    6 God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

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    51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."

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    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.

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    8 "When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.

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    6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."

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    10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

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    2 Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman."