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Exodus 2

Ex. 2:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Moses
Mosheh (Hebrew #4872)
drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
KJV usage: Moses.
Pronounce: mo-sheh'
Origin: from 4871
was content
ya'al (Hebrew #2974)
properly, to yield, especially assent; hence (pos.) to undertake as an act of volition
KJV usage: assay, begin, be content, please, take upon, X willingly, would.
Pronounce: yaw-al'
Origin: a primitive root (probably rather the same as 2973 through the idea of mental weakness)
b to dwell
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
with the man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
: and he gave
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
Moses
Mosheh (Hebrew #4872)
drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver
KJV usage: Moses.
Pronounce: mo-sheh'
Origin: from 4871
c Zipporah
Tsipporah (Hebrew #6855)
bird; Tsipporah, Moses' wife
KJV usage: Zipporah.
Pronounce: tsip-po-raw'
Origin: feminine of 6833
his daughter
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
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Phil. 4:11• 11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. (Phil. 4:11)
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Ex. 18:2• 2Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, (Ex. 18:2)

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Ministry on This Verse

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content.
Ex. 2:10• 10And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water. (Ex. 2:10)
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Gen. 31:38‑40• 38This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
 39That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
 40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. (Gen. 31:38‑40)
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Phil. 4:11‑12• 11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
 12I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. (Phil. 4:11‑12)
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1 Tim. 6:6• 6But godliness with contentment is great gain. (1 Tim. 6:6)
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Heb. 11:25• 25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; (Heb. 11:25)
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Heb. 13:5• 5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. (Heb. 13:5)
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James 1:10• 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. (James 1:10)
Zipporah.
Ex. 4:20‑25• 20And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
 21And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
 22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
 23And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
 24And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.
 25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. (Ex. 4:20‑25)
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Ex. 18:2‑6• 2Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
 3And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
 4And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
 5And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
 6And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. (Ex. 18:2‑6)
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Num. 12:1• 1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. (Num. 12:1)
• Moses presents to us Christ separated from His brethren;1 and although Zipporah might be considered as a type of the church (as well as Joseph’s wife), as the bride of the rejected Deliverer during his separation from Israel, yet, as to what regards his heart, his feelings (which are expressed in the names that he gives to his children), they are governed by the thought of being separated from the people of Israel: his fraternal affections are there-his thoughts are there-his rest and his country are there. He is a stranger everywhere else. Moses is the type of Jesus as the deliverer of Israel. He calls his son Gershom, that is to say, a “stranger there”; “for,” says he, “I have sojourned in a strange land.” (“Exodus 1-2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Moses consented to remain with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.