“I am an outsider and a sojourner among you. Give me a gravesite among you so that I may bury my dead from before my presence.”
Exodus 2:22 - Tree of Life Version She gave birth to a son and he named him Gershom, saying, “I have been an outsider in a foreign land.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 an outsider and a sojourner among you. Give me a gravesite among you so that I may bury my dead from before my presence.”
For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.
With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah
After the boy grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. So she named him Moses saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
So Moses took his wife and his sons, set them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
“Moreover, the land is not to be sold permanently, because the land is Mine. For you are sojourners with Me.
At this remark, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
The children of Dan set up for themselves the carved image. Jonathan son of Gershom son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the exile from the land.
So it came to pass at the turn of the year that Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She called his name Samuel, “because I have asked Adonai for him.”