Exodus 2:16

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 this thing, and he sought to slay Moses; but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and tarried in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

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

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Cross References

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

Genesis 29:6And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well; and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

Genesis 41:45And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-pa'neach; and he gave him Assenath the daughter of Poti-phera', the priest of On, for wife. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 18:1And Jithro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, that the Lord had brought forth 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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