One day, when Moses was sitting by a well, seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian, came to draw water and fill the troughs for their father’s sheep and goats. ¹⁷But some shepherds drove Jethro’s daughters away. Then Moses went to their rescue and watered their animals for them. ¹⁸When they returned to their father, he asked, “Why have you come back so early today?”

¹⁹“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they answered, “and he even drew water for us and watered our animals.”

²⁰“Where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why did you leave the man out there? Go and invite him to eat with us.”

²¹So Moses agreed to live there, and Jethro gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage, ²²who bore him a son. Moses said to himself, “I am a foreigner in this land, and so I name him Gershom.”^d

²³Years later the king of Egypt died, but the Israelites were still groaning under their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry went up to God, ²⁴^*who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ²⁵He saw the slavery of the Israelites and was concerned for them.^e

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Footnotes

dgershom: This name sounds like the Hebrew for “foreigner”.
ewas concerned for them; one ancient translation revealed himself to them.

Cross references

*2.15: Ac 7:29; He 11:27
*2.24: Gn 15:13, 14