Exodus 2:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Cross References

Genesis 14:18

And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.

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 24:13

I am standing here by the spring of water, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

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,

Genesis 41:45

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as his wife. Thus Joseph gained authority over the land of Egypt.

Exodus 18:1

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

Exodus 18:12

And Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’s father-in-law in the presence of God.

Exodus 3:1

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.

1 Samuel 9:11

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