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Exodus 2:22
Exodus 2:22 is verse 22 of Exodus chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
Gershom sounds like the Hebrew for foreigner.
King James Version
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
World English Bible
She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he 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 2:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
20 “So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”
21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
22 And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
24 So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Chronicles 23:14As for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.
1 Chronicles 23:15The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
1 Chronicles 23:16The descendants of Gershom: Shebuel was the first.
1 Chronicles 23:17The descendants of Eliezer: Rehabiah was the first. Eliezer did not have any other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.
Exodus 2:10When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
Exodus 18:3along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
Exodus 22:21You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
1 Chronicles 16:20they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
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.
Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
Acts 7:29At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
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.
Hebrews 11:14Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.