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


In Context

13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"

14 The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known."

15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

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.

17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.

18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"

Exodus 2:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew [water,] and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:16And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16And the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs, to water their father's flock.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16And to a priest of Midian are seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs, to water the flock of their father,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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