🔥WEB · Exodus 18:3
What does Exodus 18:3 mean?
"and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”."
— Exodus 18:3 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”
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