22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[a] saying, ‘I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.’

23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:22 Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for a foreigner there.