Exodus 2:16-25 ▼

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to give water to their father’s flock to drink.

17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses rose up and saved them and gave water to their flock to drink.

18 Then they came to Reuel their father, and he said, “Why have you come back so soon today?”

19 So they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he actually even drew the water for us and gave water to the flock to drink.”

20 And he said to his daughters, “Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind? Call him so that he may eat bread.”

21 And Moses was willing to settle down with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

22 Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

23 Now it happened in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the slavery, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their slavery rose up to God.

24 So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

25 And God saw the sons of Israel, and God knew them.