Exodus 2:22
20 “So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”
21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
24 So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- KJV
- And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
- WEB
- She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- ASV
- And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
- DARBY
- And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
- BLB
- And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have become a sojourner in a foreign land.”
- ÅB
- Hun fikk en sønn, og han kalte ham Gersom[^2]; for han sa: Jeg er blitt en gjest i et fremmed land.
- OTB
- Sippora fødte en sønn, og Moses kalte ham Gersjom, og sa: «Jeg er blitt en vandrer i et fremmed land.»
- B1930
- Hun fikk en sønn, og han kalte ham Gersom; for han sa: Jeg er blitt en gjest i et fremmed land. / < utlending der.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 11:13–14
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Read in contextActs 7:29
At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
Read in contextExodus 22:21
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Read in contextPsalms 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
Read in contextPsalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Read in context1 Chronicles 16:20
they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
Read in context1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Read in contextExodus 18:3–4
along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
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