Exodus 2:14-22
2:14 The man replied, “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, thinking, “Surely what I did has become known.”
2:15 When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.
2:16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.
2:17 When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.
2:18 So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, “Why have you come home so early today?”
2:19 They said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”
2:20 He said to his daughters, “So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us.”
2:21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
2:22 When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, “I have become a resident foreigner in a foreign land.”
Exodus 4:19-20
4:19 The
Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back
to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
4:20 Then Moses took
his wife and sons
and put them on a donkey and headed back
to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.