Exodus 2:21
Good News Translation
So Moses decided to live there, and Jethro gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage,

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

Contemporary English Version
Moses agreed to stay on with Jethro, who later let his daughter Zipporah marry Moses.

New American Bible
Moses agreed to stay with him, and the man gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

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Exodus 2:10 And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.

Genesis 31:38-40 Have I, therefore, been with thee twenty years? thy ewes and goats were not barren, the rams of thy flocks I did not eat: . . .

Philippians 4:11,12 I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith. . . .

1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Hebrews 11:25 Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God than to have the pleasure of sin for a time:

Hebrews 13:5 Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

James 1:10 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

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Exodus 4:20-25 Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass; and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand. . . .

Exodus 18:2-6 He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back: . . .

Numbers 12:1 And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,

Context
Moses Flees to Midian
20But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread. 21And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:22And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.…
Cross References
Acts 7:29
And Moses fled upon this word: and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begot two sons.

Exodus 2:20
But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.

Exodus 4:18
Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said to him; I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.

Exodus 4:25
Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

Exodus 18:2
He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back:

Numbers 12:1
And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,

Exodus 2:20
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