18. When they got home to their father, Reuel, he said, “That didn’t take long. Why are you back so soon?”
19. “An Egyptian,” they said, “rescued us from a bunch of shepherds. Why, he even drew water for us and watered the sheep.”
20. He said, “So where is he? Why did you leave him behind? Invite him so he can have something to eat with us.”
21-22. Moses agreed to settle down there with the man, who then gave his daughter Zipporah (Bird) to him for his wife. She had a son, and Moses named him Gershom (Sojourner), saying, “I’m a sojourner in a foreign country.”