Exodus 2:16

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

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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

15Now when Pharaoh heard about it, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. There he sat down by a well.

17The shepherds came and tried to drive them away, but Moses went and helped them. Then he watered their flock.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:11He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water. It was evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

Genesis 29:6He said to them, “Is he well?” They said, “He is well, and, look there, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.”

Genesis 41:45Pharaoh called Joseph's name “Zaphenath-Paneah.” He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Exodus 18:1Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people. He heard that Yahweh 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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