and her two sons. One son was named Gershom,[a] for Moses said, ‘I have become a foreigner in a foreign land’; and the other was named Eliezer,[b] for he said, ‘My father’s God was my helper; he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh.’

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and wife, came to him in the wilderness, where he was camped near the mountain of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 18:3 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.
  2. Exodus 18:4 Eliezer means my God is helper.