Exodus 18:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (for he had said, “I have been an alien in a foreign land”), More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom [ expulsion, or a stranger there], for Moses said, I have been an alien in a strange land; American Standard Version (1901) and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land: Common English Bible along with her two sons. One was named Gershom because he said, “I have been an immigrant living in a foreign land.” Catholic Public Domain Version and her two sons, of whom one was called Gershom, (for his father said, "I have been a newcomer in a foreign land,") Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam, his father saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. |
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.
She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”
So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt, and Moses carried the staff of God in his hand.
When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.
All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.
Then the Danites set up the idol for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom son of Moses and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the time the land went into captivity.