Exodus 2:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²² And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a sojourner in a strange 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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² 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.

Exodus 2:22 Cross References

Genesis 23:4

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

1 Chronicles 16:20

And they went about from nation to nation, and 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 as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, And give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Exodus 2:10

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Exodus 22:21

And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 4:20

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

Leviticus 25:23

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Acts 7:29

And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

Judges 18:30

And the children of Dan set up for themselves the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he 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 it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bare a son; and she called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.