Exodus 2:21

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

And Moses {H4872} was content {H2974} to dwell {H3427} with the man {H376}: and he gave {H5414} Moses {H4872} Zipporah {H6855} his daughter {H1323}.

Moshe was glad to stay on with the man, and he gave Moshe his daughter Tzipporah in marriage.

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

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Cross-References

  • Hebrews 13:5 (4 votes)

    [Let 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.

  • Genesis 31:38 (4 votes)

    This 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.

  • Genesis 31:40 (4 votes)

    [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

  • Philippians 4:11 (3 votes)

    Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.

  • Philippians 4:12 (3 votes)

    I 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.

  • Hebrews 11:25 (3 votes)

    Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

  • Exodus 18:2 (3 votes)

    Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,