Exodus 2:16

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

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  • Gen 24:11 : 11 He had the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.
  • Exod 3:1 : 1 Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
  • 1 Sam 9:11 : 11 As they were climbing the hill to the town, they met young women coming out to draw water, and they asked them, "Is the seer here?"
  • Gen 14:18 : 18 Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was a priest of God Most High.
  • Gen 24:14-20 : 14 May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels too,' let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." 15 Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother. 16 The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again. 17 The servant hurried to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar." 18 "Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink. 19 After she had given him a drink, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink." 20 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.
  • Gen 29:6-9 : 6 Then he asked, 'Is he well?' They said, 'He is well, and look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.' 7 He said, 'Look, the day is still high; it is not time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them out to pasture.' 8 But they said, 'We cannot until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled away from the well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep.' 9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.
  • Gen 41:45 : 45 Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. Joseph traveled throughout the land of Egypt.

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

    18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked, 'Why have you returned so early today?'

    19They answered, 'An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.'

    20Reuel said to his daughters, 'And where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to have something to eat.'

    21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

  • Exod 2:15
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    15When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.

  • Exod 3:1
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    1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Exod 18:1-2
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    1Jethro, the priest of Midian and Moses’ father-in-law, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

    2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after she had been sent away,

  • Num 25:6
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    6Then an Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into his family, in the sight of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

  • Num 25:15-16
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    15And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a family in Midian.

    16The LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 18:4-8
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    4The name of the other son was Eliezer, meaning, 'My God is my help,' for Moses had said, 'The God of my father was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.'

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    6Jethro sent word to Moses, saying, 'I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons.'

    7So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

    8Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, all the hardships they had faced along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

  • Acts 7:29
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    29When Moses heard this, he fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.

  • Exod 17:6
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    6The LORD continued, "I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 1:15-16
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    15The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,

    16"When you help the Hebrew women give birth and observe them on the birthing stools, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."

  • 1 Kgs 11:18
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    18They set out from Midian and went to Paran. Taking men from Paran with them, they entered Egypt and went to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, who gave him a house, food, and land.

  • Exod 2:7
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    7Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, 'Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you?'

  • Exod 2:5
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    5Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe at the river, and her attendants walked along the bank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her servant, and had it brought to her.

  • Exod 2:9-11
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    9Pharaoh's daughter said to her, 'Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.' So the woman took the child and nursed him.

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  • Gen 24:20
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    20So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.

  • Gen 24:13
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    13"See, I am standing here by the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

  • Acts 7:21
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    21When he was abandoned, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

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    7He said, 'Look, the day is still high; it is not time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them out to pasture.'

    8But they said, 'We cannot until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled away from the well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep.'

    9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

  • Gen 46:32
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    32The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks, herds, and everything they own.

  • Gen 24:16
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    16The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

  • Num 27:1
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    1Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came forward. These were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

  • Exod 1:22
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    22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.

  • Num 21:16
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    16From there they went to Beer. This is the well where the LORD said to Moses, 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'

  • Num 36:10
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    10The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Gen 41:2
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    2And behold, seven cows, beautiful in appearance and well-fed, came up out of the Nile and began grazing among the reeds.