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

And 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.”

along with her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom (stranger), for Moses said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”

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

When they wandered 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 [of remaining].

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am Your temporary guest,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

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

At this remark Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.

All these died in faith [guided and sustained by it], without receiving the [tangible fulfillment of God’s] promises, only having seen (anticipated) them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

General references

This was my situation: by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and I could not sleep.