Exodus 2:22-24

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²² She bore a son, and he named him Gershom; for he said, “I have been an alien^[a] residing in a foreign land.”

²³ After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God. ²⁴ God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.