This twenty years {have} I {been} with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

{Let your} conversation {be} without covetousness; {and be} content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, {therewith} to be content.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water. {Moses: that is, Drawn out}

Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. {Ethiopian: or, Cushite} {married: Heb. taken}

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

{Let your} conversation {be} without covetousness; {and be} content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. {Ethiopian: or, Cushite} {married: Heb. taken}

Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, {therewith} to be content.

When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, {and} that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, {even} to Horeb.