² Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken back Moses’ wife Zipporah after she had been sent away, ³ along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom, because he would say, “I was an alien^[a] in a foreign land,” ⁴ while the name of the other was Eliezer,^[b] because he would say,^[c] “My father’s God helped me and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”