along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom[a] (because Moses had said, “I have been a resident alien in a foreign land”)(A) and the other Eliezer (because he had said, “The God of my father was my helper and rescued me from Pharaoh’s sword”).[b]

Moses’s father-in-law, Jethro, along with Moses’s wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:3 In Hb the name Gershom sounds like the phrase “a stranger there.”
  2. 18:4 = My God Is Help

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