16. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
17. But shepherds came and drove them away. So Moses rose up in their defense and watered their flock.
18. When they returned to their father Reuel, he said to them, “How is it you have returned so soon today?”
19. They answered, “An Egyptian delivered us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock!”
20. “Where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why did you leave the man there? Invite him to have something to eat.”
21. Moses agreed to stay with him, and the man gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage.
22. She conceived and bore a son, whom he named Gershom; for he said, “I am a stranger residing in a foreign land.”
23. A long time passed, during which the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their bondage and cried out, and from their bondage their cry for help went up to God.