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Now Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah,(A) Moses’s wife, after he had sent her back, along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom[a] (because Moses had said, ‘I have been a resident foreigner in a foreign land’)(B) and the other Eliezer (because he had said, ‘The God of my father was my helper and rescued me from Pharaoh’s sword’).[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 18:3 In Hb the name Gershom sounds like the phrase ‘a stranger there’.
  2. 18:4 = My God Is Help