Bible Cross References
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
Exodus 2:14-22
14
The man answered, "Who made you our ruler and judge? Are you going to kill me just as you killed that Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and said to himself, "People have found out what I have done."
15
When the king heard about what had happened, he tried to have Moses killed, but Moses fled and went to live in the land of Midian. One day, when Moses was sitting by a well, seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian, came to draw water and fill the troughs for their father's sheep and goats.
17
But some shepherds drove Jethro's daughters away. Then Moses went to their rescue and watered their animals for them.
18
When they returned to their father, he asked, "Why have you come back so early today?"
19
"An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds," they answered, "and he even drew water for us and watered our animals."
20
"Where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave the man out there? Go and invite him to eat with us."
21
So Moses decided to live there, and Jethro gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage,
22
who bore him a son. Moses said to himself, "I am a foreigner in this land, and so I name him Gershom."
Exodus 4:19
While Moses was still in Midian, the LORD said to him, "Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead."
Exodus 4:20
So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and set out with them for Egypt, carrying the walking stick that God had told him to take.
Midian
Exodus 18:2-4
2
So he came to Moses, bringing with him Moses' wife Zipporah, who had been left behind,
3
and Gershom and Eliezer, her two sons. (Moses had said, "I have been a foreigner in a strange land"; so he had named one son Gershom.
4
He had also said, "The God of my father helped me and saved me from being killed by the king of Egypt"; so he had named the other son Eliezer. )