²⁴ So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.

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

³ And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land:

⁴ And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh:

⁵ And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God.

¹⁹ Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

² And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.

⁵ Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath.

⁵ (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

²¹ And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.