2:16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw ⁷  water ⁸  and fill ⁹  the troughs in order to water their father’s flock. 2:17 When some ¹⁰  shepherds came and drove them away, ¹¹  Moses came up and defended them ¹²  and then watered their flock. 2:18 So when they came home ¹³  to their father Reuel, ¹⁴  he asked, “Why have you come home so early ¹⁵  today?” 2:19 They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us ¹⁶  from the shepherds, ¹⁷  and he actually ¹⁸  drew water for us and watered the flock!” 2:20 He said ¹⁹  to his daughters, “So where is he? ²⁰  Why in the world ²¹  did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat ²²  a meal ²³  with us.”

2:21 Moses agreed ²⁴  to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. ²⁵  2:22 When she bore ²⁶  a son, Moses ²⁷  named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.” ²⁸