Exodus 2:14-22

English Standard Version

¹⁴ He answered, ^(A)“Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” ¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But ^(B)Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by ^(C)a well.

¹⁶ Now the ^(D)priest of Midian had seven daughters, and ^(E)they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. ¹⁷ The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and ^(F)watered their flock. ¹⁸ When they came home to their father ^(G)Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” ¹⁹ They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and ^(H)watered the flock.” ²⁰ He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may ^(I)eat bread.” ²¹ And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter ^(J)Zipporah. ²² She gave birth to a son, and he called his name ^(K)Gershom, for he said, “I have been a ^(L)sojourner^[a] in a foreign land.”