Exodus 2:21 Cross References - BBE

²¹ And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

³⁸ These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food. ³⁹ Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night. ⁴⁰ This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

¹⁰ And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water.

²⁰ And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand. ²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go. ²² And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons: ²³ And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death. ²⁴ Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death. ²⁵ Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.

² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, ³ And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land: ⁴ And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh: ⁵ And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God. ⁶ And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons.

¹ Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.

¹¹ But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself. ¹² It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need.

⁶ But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:

²⁵ Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

⁵ Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

¹⁰ But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.