"In calling his two sons by the names of Gershom and Eliezer, Moses, like Joseph and other righteous men, intended to have the fact of God's help constantly before him. Since his sons would be with him, and he would often address them or call them by name, he would remember his gratitude to God."
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1, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 89
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