One day, while Moses was sitting by a well, ¹⁶seven daughters of the priest of Midian came. They drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s sheep. ¹⁷But some shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses got up, came to their defense, and then watered their sheep.

¹⁸When they came back to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you come home so early today?”

¹⁹They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from some shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the sheep.”

²⁰Reuel asked his daughters, “Where is he? Why did you leave the man there? Go, invite him to supper.”

²¹Moses decided to stay with the man. So Reuel gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses as his wife. ²²She gave birth to a son. Moses named him Gershom ^[Foreigner^[, because he said, “I was a foreigner living in another country.”

The Israelites Pray to God during Their Suffering

²³After a long time passed, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God. ²⁴God heard their groaning, and he remembered his promise^ato Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ²⁵God saw the Israelites ⸤being oppressed⸥ and was concerned about them.

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Footnotes

[Proper names or foreign words whose meaning is significant for understanding a particular Bible passage are translated in brackets following the name or phrase
a 2:24 Or “covenant.”