Exodus 2:16

And the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew [water], and filled the troughs, to water their father's flock.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

In Context

15And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat by the well.

17And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses rose and helped them, and watered their flock.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:11And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water, at the time of the evening, when the women came out to draw [water].

Genesis 29:6And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, [He is] well; and behold, there comes Rachel his daughter with the sheep.

Genesis 41:45And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah, and gave him as wife Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Exodus 18:1And Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people; that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 2:12-16

Moses Slays an Egyptian; Rebukes a Contentious Hebrew. ( b. c. 1533.) 11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,… Read the whole commentary →

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