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22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,[a] for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:22 “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.