Exodus 2:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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 out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.

Genesis 24:11

And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.

Genesis 24:13

Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

Genesis 29:2

As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and lo, three flocks of sheep lying beside it; for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large,

Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Exodus 18:1

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

Exodus 18:12

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, offered a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with 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 his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian; and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

1 Samuel 9:11

As they went up the hill to the city, they met young maidens coming out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”