¹⁵And Pharaoh heard this matter, and he sought to kill Moses, and Moses fled from Pharaoh, and he lived in the land of Midian, and he lived at a certain well.ⁱ

¹⁶Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.^j ¹⁷And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. ¹⁸And they came to Reuel, their father, and he said, “Why have you come so quickly^k today?” ¹⁹And they said, “An Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us and watered the flock.” ²⁰And he said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why then^l have you left the man? Call him so that he can eat some food.”^m ²¹And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. ²²And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom because he said, “I am an alien in a foreign land.”ⁿ

²³And then^o during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites^p groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God. ²⁴And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob, ²⁵and God saw the Israelites,^q and God took notice.^r

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Footnotes

iLiterally “the well”
jThe Hebrew noun translated “flock” is used here and in verses 17 and 19 collectively for sheep or goats or a mix of the two
kLiterally “why did you hasten coming”
lLiterally “why this”
mLiterally “call to or “summon/invite” him and he will eat bread”
nThe word translated “alien” sounds like the first syllable in the name Gershom. The second syllable sounds like the word for “there”
oLiterally “and he/it was”
pLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
qLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
rOr “and God knew”