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Exodus 2:21-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Exodus 2:21-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage.(A) 22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,[a] for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”(B)
23 After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.(C)
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- 2.22 In Heb Gershom resembles the word for alien
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