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What was the relationship between Zipporah and Moses?

Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, was the wife of Moses and the mother of his two sons. Exodus 2:21; Exodus 18:2-4

What the Bible says

Exodus 2:21

And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

Exodus 2:22

And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

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Moses named his first son Gershom, because Moses was a stranger in a foreign land. Exodus 2:22

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