Exodus 2:16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.

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New International Version (©1984)
Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came as usual to draw water and fill the water troughs for their father's flocks.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
seven daughters of the priest of Midian came. They drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's sheep.

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

American 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.

American Standard 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.

Bible in Basic English
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's flocks.

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

English Revised 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.

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
And to a priest of Midian are seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs, to water the flock of their father,

Geneva Study Bible

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

King James Translators' Notes

priest: or, prince

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16-22. the priest of Midian-or, "prince of Midian." As the officers were usually conjoined, he was the ruler also of the people called Cushites or Ethiopians, and like many other chiefs of pastoral people in that early age, he still retained the faith and worship of the true God.

seven daughters-were shepherdesses to whom Moses was favorably introduced by an act of courtesy and courage in protecting them from the rude shepherds of some neighboring tribe at a well. He afterwards formed a close and permanent alliance with this family by marrying one of the daughters, Zipporah, "a little bird," called a Cushite or Ethiopian (Nu 12:1), and whom Moses doubtless obtained in the manner of Jacob by service [see Ex 3:1]. He had by her two sons, whose names were, according to common practice, commemorative of incidents in the family history [Ex 18:3, 4].

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:16-22 Moses found shelter in Midian. He was ready to help Reuel's daughters to water their flocks, although bred in learning and at court. Moses loved to be doing justice, and to act in defence of such as he saw injured, which every man ought to do, as far as it is in his power. He loved to be doing good; wherever the providence of God casts us, we should desire and try to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can. Moses commended himself to the prince of Midian; who married one of his daughters to Moses, by whom he had a son, called Gershom, a stranger there, that he might keep in remembrance the land in which he had been a stranger.

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

Genesis 24:13 "Behold, I am standing by the spring, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;

Genesis 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Genesis 29:10 When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Exodus 18:12 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law before God.

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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.

the priest. or prince. 3:1 Ge 14:18 41:45

they came. Ge 24:11,14-20 29:6-10 1Sa 9:11

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