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Exodus 18:3
Exodus 18:3 is verse 3 of Exodus chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for sojourner.
King James Version
And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
World English Bible
and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
“Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.
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Exodus 18:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
2 After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
3 along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
4 The other son was named Eliezer, for Moses had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
5 Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 7:29At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
Exodus 2:22And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Hebrews 11:13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.