Exodus 18:2-4
Good News Translation
2 (A)So he came to Moses, bringing with him Moses' wife Zipporah, who had been left behind, 3 (B)and Gershom and Eliezer, her two sons. (Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a strange land”; so he had named one son Gershom.[a] 4 He had also said, “The God of my father helped me and saved me from being killed by the king of Egypt”; so he had named the other son Eliezer.[b])
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- Exodus 18:3 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “foreigner.”
- Exodus 18:4 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “God helps me.”
Exodus 18:2-4
King James Version
2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
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