Exodus 2:22

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

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land Moses fled after killing an Egyptian, while Midian, east of Egypt across the Sinai region, became his place of refuge and family life. The Nile, associated with Egypt and Moses’s earlier rescue, underscores the contrast between his former Egyptian setting and his exile in Midian, where his son’s name recalls his foreign sojourn.

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Exodus 2:22 mentions Egypt, Midian and Nile.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato