2:17. And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep. 2:18. And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual? Raguel.... He had two names, being also called Jethro, as appears from the first verse of the following chapter. 2:19. They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink. 2:20. But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread. 2:21. And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife: 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. Gersam.... Or Gershom. This name signifies a stranger there: as Eliezer signifies the help of God. 2:23. Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works. 2:24. And he heard their groaning, and remembered the covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 2:25. And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them. Knew them.... That is, he had respect to them, he cast a merciful eye upon them. Exodus Chapter 3 God appeareth to Moses in a bush, and sendeth him to deliver Israel. 3:1. Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. 3:2. And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt. The Lord appeared.... That is, an angel representing God, and speaking in his name. 3:3. And Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 3:4. And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush. and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: Here I am. 3:5. And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground. 3:6. And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God. 3:7. And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works; 3:8. And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.