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
Then he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!"
15
When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.
16
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
17
Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18
When they came to Reuel their father, he said, "How [is it that] you have come so soon today?"
19
And they said, "An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock."
20
So he said to his daughters, "And where [is] he? Why [is] it [that] you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
21
Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.
22
And she bore [him] a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land."
Exodus 4:19
And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."
Exodus 4:20
Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
Midian
Exodus 18:2-4
2
Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
3
with her two sons, of whom the name of one [was] Gershom (for he said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land")
4
and the name of the other [was] Eliezer (for [he said,] "The God of my father [was] my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh");