Exodus 2:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

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  • Gen 24:11 : 11 And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.
  • Exod 3:1 : 1 Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
  • 1 Sam 9:11 : 11 And when they were on the way up to the town, they saw some young girls going out to get water and said to them, Is the seer here?
  • Gen 14:18 : 18 And Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, took bread and wine,
  • Gen 24:14-20 : 14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham. 15 And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm. 16 She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel. 17 And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel. 18 And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink. 19 And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough. 20 And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.
  • Gen 29:6-9 : 6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep. 7 Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food. 8 And they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep. 9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them. 10 Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.
  • Gen 41:45 : 45 And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.

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  • Exod 2:17-21
    5 verses
    86%

    17And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.

    18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you have come back so quickly today?

    19And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the keepers of sheep and got water for us and gave it to the flock.

    20And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.

    21And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

  • Exod 2:15
    79%

    15Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

  • Exod 3:1
    76%

    1Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Exod 18:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.

    2And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

  • Num 25:6
    73%

    6Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

  • Num 25:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.

    16Then the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 18:4-8
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    72%

    4And the name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, The God of my father was my help, and kept me safe from the sword of Pharaoh:

    5And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God.

    6And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons.

    7And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent.

    8And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.

  • Acts 7:29
    71%

    29And at these words, Moses went in flight to the land of Midian, and was living there for a time, and had two sons.

  • Exod 17:6
    71%

    6See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

  • Exod 1:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),

    16When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.

  • 1 Kgs 11:18
    70%

    18And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and gave orders for his food and gave him land.

  • Exod 2:7
    70%

    7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, May I go and get you one of the Hebrew women to give him the breast?

  • Exod 2:5
    70%

    5Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

  • Exod 2:9-11
    3 verses
    70%

    9And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take the child away and give it milk for me, and I will give you payment. And the woman took the child and gave it milk at her breast.

    10And when the child was older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son, and she gave him the name Moses, Because, she said, I took him out of the water.

    11Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.

  • Gen 24:20
    70%

    20And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

  • Gen 24:13
    69%

    13See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:

  • Acts 7:21
    69%

    21And when he was put out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and kept him as her son.

  • Gen 29:7-9
    3 verses
    69%

    7Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

    8And they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep.

    9While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

  • Gen 46:32
    69%

    32And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.

  • Gen 24:16
    69%

    16She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.

  • Num 27:1
    68%

    1Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

  • Exod 1:22
    68%

    22And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

  • Num 21:16
    68%

    16From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.

  • Num 36:10
    68%

    10So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord gave orders to Moses:

  • Gen 41:2
    68%

    2And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.