Exodus 2:22
Exodus chapter 2 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
Context
v.21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
v.22This passage
v.23And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- Psalms 119:19
I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
- 1 Chronicles 16:20
And they went about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.
- Exodus 22:21
And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
- Psalms 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.