Exodus 2:11-22

11Now it happened in those days, after Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He noticed an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

12So he looked around and when he saw that there was nobody, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

13Then he went out the following day, and saw two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the guilty one, “Why are you beating your companion?”

14But the man answered, “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you saying you’re going to kill me—just as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “For sure the deed had become known.”

15When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.

16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came and drew water. They filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

17But shepherds came and drove them away, so Moses stood up, helped them and watered their flock.

18When they came to Reuel their father, he said, “How come you’ve returned so soon today?”

19So they told him, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds. He also drew water for us and watered the flock.”

20“Where is he then?” he said to his daughters. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have some food to eat!”

21Moses was content to stay on with the man. Later he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

22She gave birth to a son and he named him Gershom, saying, “I have been an outsider in a foreign land.”