Verse 20
Exodus 2:20
Free Bible Version
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Moses agreed to stay with the man, who arranged for his daughter Zipporah to marry Moses.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר אֶל בְּנֹתָ֖י/ו וְ/אַיּ֑/וֹ לָ֤/מָּה זֶּה֙ עֲזַבְתֶּ֣ן אֶת הָ/אִ֔ישׁ קִרְאֶ֥ן ל֖/וֹ וְ/יֹ֥אכַל לָֽחֶם
English Translation
And he said to his daughters, "Why have you left the man? Call him and let him eat bread."
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Chapter 2 Context
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It was around this time that a man from the tribe of Levi married a woman, also a Levite.
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She became pregnant and had a son. She saw he was a lovely baby, and she hid him for three months.
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But when she couldn't hide him anymore, she got a papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch....
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His sister waited some distance away, keeping an eye on him.
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Then Pharaoh's daughter arrived to bathe in the Nile. Her ladies-in-waiting were walking along the b...
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When she opened it she saw the baby boy. He was crying and she felt sorry for him. “This must be one...
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His sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, “Would you like me to go and find one of the Hebrew women to nu...
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“Yes, go and do that,” she replied. So the girl went and called the baby's mother to come.
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“Take this baby boy and nurse him for me,” Pharaoh's daughter told his mother. “I will pay you mysel...
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When the boy was older she took him to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her son. She called hi...
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Later, when Moses had grown up, he went to visit his people, the Hebrews. He saw them doing hard lab...
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He looked all around to make sure no one was watching, and then he killed the Egyptian and buried hi...
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The following day he went back and he saw two Hebrews fighting with each other. He said to the one a...
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“Who put you in charge to judge us?” the man replied. “Are you going to kill me like you did the Egy...
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When Pharaoh found out, he tried to have Moses killed, but Moses ran away from Pharaoh and went to l...
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Some shepherds arrived and chased them off, but Moses intervened and rescued them, and watered their...
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When they got home, their father Reuel asked them, “How did you get back so quickly today?”
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“An Egyptian rescued us from some shepherds who attacked us,” they replied. “Then he even fetched wa...
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“So where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “You didn't just leave him there, did you? Go and invit...
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Moses agreed to stay with the man, who arranged for his daughter Zipporah to marry Moses.
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She had a son, and Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I'm an exile living in a foreign country.”
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Years later, the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites were still groaning under their hard labor....
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God (Elohim) heard their groans, and recalled his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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God (Elohim) also looked sympathetically on the Israelites, and was concerned for them.
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