Exodus 2:22 - Revised Standard Version CI

²² She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² 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

²² 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)

²² 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

²² 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

²² 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."

Exodus 2:22 Cross References

Genesis 23:4

“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.”

1 Chronicles 16:20

wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

1 Chronicles 29:15

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.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner on earth; hide not thy commandments from me!

Psalm 39:12

“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.

Exodus 2:10

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.”

Exodus 22:21

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 4:20

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.

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Acts 7:29

At this retort Moses fled, and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

Judges 18:30

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.

1 Samuel 1:20

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.”