20 Then he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why have ye so left the man? [a]call him that he may eat bread.

21 And Moses agreed to dwell with the man: who gave unto Moses Zipporah his daughter:

22 And she bare a son, (A)whose name he called Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

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  1. Exodus 2:20 Wherein he declared a thankful mind, which would recompense the benefit done unto his.

20 “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”(A)

21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah(B) to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[a](C) saying, “I have become a foreigner(D) in a foreign land.”

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  1. Exodus 2:22 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.