“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
Exodus 2:22 - Revised Standard Version She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.” Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom [expulsion, or a stranger there]; for he said, I have been a stranger and a sojourner in a foreign land. American Standard Version (1901) And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land. Common English Bible She gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, “because,” he said, “I’ve been an immigrant living in a foreign land.” Catholic Public Domain Version And she bore a son to him, whom he called Gershom, saying, "I have been a newcomer in a foreign land." In truth, she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying, "For the God of my father, my helper, has rescued me from the hand of Pharaoh." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao. |
“I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears! For I am thy passing guest, a sojourner, like all my fathers.
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and went back to the land of Egypt; and in his hand Moses took the rod of God.
The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
At this retort Moses fled, and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
And the Danites set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
and in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked him of the Lord.”