15. Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

16. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

17. The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

18. When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

19. They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

20. He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

21. Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

22. She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

Now Moses was keeping the flock of JETHRO, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.

Moses went and returned to JETHRO his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive."JETHRO said to Moses, "Go in peace."

Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well; for the LORD has spoken good concerning Israel."