Êxodo 18:3

3 com os seus dois filhos. Um deles chamava-se Gérson, pois Moisés dissera: “Tornei-me imigrante em terra estrangeira”;

Êxodo 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.

Êxodo 18:3 In-Context

1 Jetro, sacerdote de Midiã e sogro de Moisés, soube de tudo o que Deus tinha feito por Moisés e pelo povo de Israel, como o SENHOR havia tirado Israel do Egito.

2 Moisés tinha mandado Zípora, sua mulher, para a casa de seu sogro, Jetro, que a recebeu

3 com os seus dois filhos. Um deles chamava-se Gérson, pois Moisés dissera: “Tornei-me imigrante em terra estrangeira”;

4 e o outro chamava-se Eliézer, pois dissera: “O Deus de meu pai foi o meu ajudador; livrou-me da espada do faraó”.

5 Jetro, sogro de Moisés, veio com os filhos e a mulher de Moisés encontrá-lo no deserto, onde estava acampado, perto do monte de Deus.