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Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
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When they came to Reuel their father, he said, "How is it that you have come so soon today?"
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And they said, "An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock."
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So he said to his daughters, "And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
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Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.
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And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land."
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Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
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So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.