¹⁶Now the gpriest of Midian had seven daughters, and hthey came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. ¹⁷The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and iwatered their flock. ¹⁸When they came home to their father jReuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” ¹⁹They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and iwatered the flock.” ²⁰He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may keat bread.” ²¹And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter lZipporah. ²²She gave birth to a son, and he called his name mGershom, for he said, “I have been a nsojourner4 in a foreign land.”

God Hears Israel's Groaning

²³oDuring those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel pgroaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. qTheir cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. ²⁴And rGod heard their groaning, and God sremembered his covenant with tAbraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵God usaw the people of Israel—and God vknew.

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