Exodus 2:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Now 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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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 (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Now there was a Midianite priest who had seven daughters. The daughters came to draw water and fill the troughs so that their father’s flock could drink.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now there was a priest of Midian with seven daughters, who came to draw water. And having filled the troughs, they desired to water their father's flocks.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Exodus 2:16 Cross References

Genesis 14:18

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

Genesis 24:11

And 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 24:13

Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

Genesis 29:2

And 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.

Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Exodus 18:1

Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 18:12

And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.

1 Samuel 9:11

As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?