Exodus 2:21

Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

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WEBBE

Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

BSB

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 16–22

Moses found shelter in Midian. He was ready to help Reuel's daughters to water their flocks, although bred in learning and at court. Moses loved to be doing justice, and to act in defence of such as he saw injured, which every man ought to do, as far as it is in his power. He loved to be doing good; wherever the providence of God casts us, we should desire and try to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can. Moses commended himself to the prince of Midian; who married one of his daughters to Moses, by whom he had a son, called Gershom, "a stranger there," that he might keep in remembrance the land in which he had been a stranger.

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