Exodus 2:15

And Pharoh heard that thing, and sought to kill Mosheh; and Mosheh fled from before Pharoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat by a well;

Targum Onkelos

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

14But he said, Who set you a chief man and judge over us? Will you who speak so kill me, as you killed the Mizraya? And Mosheh was afraid, and said, Surely the thing is known.

16And the prince ( rabba) of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:11And he made the camels rest without the city at a well of waters in the evening time, at the time when they came forth to fill.

Genesis 25:4And the sons of Midyan, Eipha, and Epher, and Hanok, and Abidah, and Eldaah: all these the sons of Keturah.

Genesis 29:2And he looked, and saw a well in a field; and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying near it, because from that well they watered the flocks; and a great stone was upon the mouth of the well.

Exodus 18:4And the name of the other Eliezer; For (said he) the God of my fathers hath been my helper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharoh.

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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