Exodus 2:15

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

In Context

14And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.'

16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:11And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

Genesis 25:4And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

Genesis 29:2And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. — For out of that well they watered the flocks. And the stone upon the well's mouth was great.

Exodus 18:4and the name of the other was Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.'

1 Kings 19:1And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

Proverbs 22:3A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtless pass on, and are punished.

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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