¹⁴ The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?^(A) Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill^(B) Moses, but Moses fled^(C) from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian,^(D) where he sat down by a well. ¹⁶ Now a priest of Midian^(E) had seven daughters, and they came to draw water^(F) and fill the troughs^(G) to water their father’s flock. ¹⁷ Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue^(H) and watered their flock.^(I)

¹⁸ When the girls returned to Reuel^(J) their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

¹⁹ They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

²⁰ “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”^(K)

²¹ Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah^(L) to Moses in marriage. ²² Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,^[a](M) saying, “I have become a foreigner^(N) in a foreign land.”