²⁹ And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.

¹⁴ And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?

¹⁹ And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.

²⁰ And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

²¹ And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

²² And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.

¹⁹ And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.

²⁰ And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

³ and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land:

⁴ and the name of the other was Eliezer; for `he said', The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.