Esodo 18:3

3 e i due figliuoli di essa; il nome dell’uno de’ quali era Ghersom; perciocchè Mosè, avea detto: Io sono stato forestiere in paese strano.

Esodo 18:3 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 18:3

And her two sons
Those also Jethro took along with him and his daughter:

of which the name of the one was Gershom;
which seems to be his firstborn, ( Exodus 2:22 ) , his name signifies a desolate stranger, as some, or, "there I was a stranger": the reason of which name follows agreeably thereunto:

for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land;
meaning, not the land of Egypt, where he was born, and had lived forty years; but in the land of Midian, where he was when this son of his was born; and which name was given him partly to keep up the memory of his flight to Midian, and partly to instruct his son, that Midian, though his native place, was not his proper country where he was to dwell, but another, even the land of Canaan.

Esodo 18:3 In-Context

1 OR Ietro, sacerdote di Madian, suocero di Mosè, intese tutto quel che Iddio avea fatto a Mosè, e ad Israele, suo popolo; come il Signore avea tratto Israele fuor di Egitto.

2 E Ietro prese Sippora, moglie di Mosè, dopo ch’egli l’ebbe rimandata;

3 e i due figliuoli di essa; il nome dell’uno de’ quali era Ghersom; perciocchè Mosè, avea detto: Io sono stato forestiere in paese strano.

4 E il nome dell’altro era Eliezer; perciocchè egli avea detto: L’Iddio di mio padre mi è stato in aiuto, e mi ha scampato dalla spada di Faraone.

5 Ietro adunque, suocero di Mosè, venne a Mosè, co’ figliuoli di esso, e con la sua moglie, nel deserto, ove egli era accampato al Monte di Dio.