When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
Exodus 2:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. American Standard Version (1901) And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. Common English Bible Moses agreed to come and live with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses as his wife. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, Moses swore that he would live with him. And he accepted his daughter Zipporah as a wife. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife. |
When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to share a meal.”
Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.
Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me go back to my own people in Egypt and see whether they are still living.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’s father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you’; come with us, and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good to Israel.”
While they were at Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had indeed married a Cushite woman),
When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.
choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”
and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.