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29. ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τούτῳ. The preposition marks the occasion. Upon this speech. Josephus (Ant. II. 11. 1) makes no mention of this reason for the flight of Moses, but says that the Egyptians were jealous of him, and told the king ‘that he would raise a sedition, and bring innovations’ into the land. And in consequence of the plots against him bred of these suspicions Moses fled away secretly.
καὶ ἐγένετο πάροικος, and became a sojourner. Madian is the Greek form for the Hebrew Midian, which form would, for clearness’ sake, be better here. By ‘the land of Midian,’ which is only found in Scripture history, is probably meant the peninsula on which Mount Sinai stands (see Exo 3:1).
υἱοὺς δύο. These sons were Gershom and Eliezer; their mother was Zipporah the daughter of Jethro (Exo 18:2-4).