Exodus 2:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh. He settled in the land of Midian and sat down by a well.

Cross References

Genesis 24:11

He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water; it was toward evening, the time when women go out to draw water.

Genesis 25:2

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Genesis 25:4

The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

Genesis 29:2

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

1 Kings 11:18

They set out from Midian and came to Paran; they took people with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, assigned him an allowance of food, and gave him land.

Exodus 18:4

and the name of the other was Eliezer (for he had said, “The God of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).

Exodus 4:19

The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who were seeking your life are dead.”

Proverbs 22:3

The clever see danger and hide, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Habakkuk 3:7

I saw the tents of Cushan under affliction; the tent curtains of the land of Midian trembled.

Matthew 10:23

When they persecute you in this town, flee to the next, for truly I tell you, you will not have finished going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

Acts 7:29

When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, unafraid of the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he saw him who is invisible.