Lesson 82 - A Home in the Wilderness

In Exodus 2:21–22, Moses resolves to stay with Jethro in Midian. Jethro gives his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage, and when she gives birth to a baby boy, Moses names him Gershom—explaining that he has become a stranger in a foreign land. Imagine the shift in Moses's life: from marble Egyptian palaces to a woven goat-hair tent in the rugged desert! Naming his son Gershom shows both gratitude for a new family and the lingering ache of exile. Today we explore nomadic tent engineering, Hebrew root words, ancient marriage customs, and thriving in unexpected seasons.