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And Pharaoh heard this word, and he sought to kill Moses. And Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian. And he sat down by the well.

And the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew and filled the troughs to water their father's flocks.

And the shepherds came and drove them away; and Moses rose up and saved them, and watered their flocks.

And they came to their father Reuel; and he said, Why have you hurried to come today?

And they said, An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew for us and watered the flock.

And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why then have you left the man? Call him, and let him eat bread.

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

And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land.