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Exodus 2:22

American Standard Version

And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.

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Exodus 2:22 in other translations

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Exodus 2:22 · World English Bible

Exodus 2:22 in context

  1. 20And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
  2. 21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
  3. 22And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
  4. 23And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
  5. 24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.