Exodus 2:22

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Summary

Exodus 2:22

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

For he said

General references

Genesis 31:40

Bible References

For he said

The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And they wandered about from nation to nation,
And from one kingdom to another people,

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

I am a stranger in the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.

At this remark, Moses fled and became an alien in the land of

Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

General references

Thus I was: by day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.