Exodus 2:16

the Midianite priest's seven daughters came to fetch water to fill up the troughs so their father's flock could drink.

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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

15When Pharaoh found out, he tried to have Moses killed, but Moses ran away from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian. One day as he was sitting by a well,

17Some shepherds arrived and chased them off, but Moses intervened and rescued them, and watered their flock.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:11Arriving in the evening, he had the camels kneel down by the spring that was outside the town. This was the time when women went out to fetch water.

Genesis 29:6“How is he?” he asked. “He's well,” they replied. “Look! In fact here's his daughter Rachel coming with the sheep right now.”

Genesis 41:45Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and arranged for him to marry Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. This is how Joseph rose to power over the whole of Egypt.

Exodus 18:1Moses' father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything God had done for Moses and his people the Israelites, and how the Lord had led them 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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