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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 regard to want; for I learned in the circumstances in which I am to find competence. (Phil. 4:11)
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Ex. 18:2• 2And 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 when the child was grown, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses and said, Because I drew him out of the water. (Ex. 2:10)
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Gen. 31:38‑40• 38These twenty years I [have been] with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and rams of thy flock I have not eaten.
 39What was torn I have not brought to thee; I bore the loss of it: of my hand didst thou require it, stolen by day or stolen by night.
 40[Thus] I was; in the day drought consumed me, and frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. (Gen. 31:38‑40)
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Phil. 4:11‑12• 11Not that I speak in regard to want; for I learned in the circumstances in which I am to find competence.
 12I know also to be abased, I know also to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be filled and to hunger, both to abound and to be in want. (Phil. 4:11‑12)
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1 Tim. 6:6• 6But piety with contentment is great gain. (1 Tim. 6:6)
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Heb. 11:25• 25choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to have temporary pleasure of sin, (Heb. 11:25)
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Heb. 13:5• 5Free from love of money [be] your course of life, satisfied with present things, for he hath said, I will not leave thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee: (Heb. 13:5)
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James 1:10• 10and the rich in his humiliation, because as flower of grass, he will pass away. (James 1:10)
Zipporah.
Ex. 4:20‑25• 20And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them riding upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
 21And Jehovah said to Moses, When thou goest to return to Egypt, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put in thy hand. And I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
 22And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
 23And I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me. And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.
 24And it came to pass on the way, in the inn, that Jehovah came upon him, and sought to slay him.
 25Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me! (Ex. 4:20‑25)
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Ex. 18:2‑6• 2And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
 3and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom—for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land,
 4—and the name of the other, Eliezer—For the God of my father has been my help, and has delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.
 5And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came to Moses with his sons and his wife into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mountain of God.
 6And he sent word to Moses: I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come to 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)
• Zipporah is thus in figure a type of the church, for she is associated with Moses during the time of his rejection by Israel. (“The Birth of Moses: Exodus 2” by E. Dennett)
• 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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