22 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name (A)Gershom, for he said, “I have been a (B)sojourner[a] in a foreign land.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:22 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for sojourner

along with her (A)two sons. The name of the one was Gershom ((B)for he said, (C)“I have been a sojourner[a] in a foreign land”), and the name of the other, Eliezer[b] (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 18:3 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for sojourner
  2. Exodus 18:4 Eliezer means My God is help

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