Exodus 18:3
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along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
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And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.