Exodus 2:21

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“Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.”

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BSBPD

“Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he giveth Zipporah his daughter to Moses,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 2:21 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 31:38I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
  2. Exodus 2:10When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
  3. Exodus 3:1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
  4. Exodus 4:20So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
  5. Exodus 4:25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
  6. Exodus 18:2After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
  7. Numbers 10:29Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
  8. Numbers 12:1Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.
  9. Philippians 4:11I am not saying this out of need, for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances.
  10. 1 Timothy 6:6Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
  11. Hebrews 11:25He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
  12. Hebrews 13:5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
  13. James 1:10But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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