Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Exodus 2

Exodus 2:²¹ Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah (derived from the root word “tsippor,” which means “bird”), his daughter (a Gentile), to Moses.

• Moses is on the list of “biblical redeemers” of the Jews. Prophetically, he, like all the redeemers, first married a Gentile before redeeming his people. Moses married (Gentile) Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro/ Reuel, priest of Midian.
  
• Samson married Timna, Delilah (Gentiles), before he brought the temple down on the Philistines head, thus redeeming his people.
  • Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 5:8:11:
    “However, he at length transgressed the laws of his country, and altered his own regular way of living, and imitated the strange customs of foreigners, which thing was the beginning of his miseries; for he fell in love with a woman that was a harlot among the Philistines: her name was Delilah, and he lived with her.”
    The Greek word used for “lived with her” is συνῆν, which refers to marriage.
    
• Joseph married Asenath, daughter of (Gentile) Poripha, priest of On. She bore him two sons, becoming the matriarch for two tribes of Israel, Ephraim and Manasseh. (Genesis 46:20)
  
• Boaz married Ruth, a Gentile Moabite widow who was redeemed by Boaz. Ruth bore Obed, who bore Jesse, the father of King David.
  
• Esther married the Gentile Persian King, Artaxerxes, before the Jews were saved.
  
• Even Jesus took a Gentile wife, aka “the Bride of Christ”, prophetically, before the Jews will ultimately be “redeemed”.

{1 of 3} Exodus 2 – “Go With the Flow”
{2 of 3} Exodus 2 – “Prophetic Redemption” [v21]
{3 of 3} Exodus 2 – “He Brews” [v3,18,22]
{4 of 4} Exodus 2 – “Moe Sez” [Archeology v1]