Exodus 2:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

And the Priest of Midian had seue daughters, which came and drewe water, and filled the troghes, for to water their fathers sheepe.

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  • Gen 24:11 : 11 And he made his camels to lye downe without the citie by a well of water, at euentide about the time that the women come out to draw water.
  • Exod 3:1 : 1 When Moses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, Priest of Midian, & droue the flocke to the backe side of the desert, and came to the Mountaine of God, Horeb,
  • 1 Sam 9:11 : 11 And as they were going vp the hie way to the citie, they found maydes that came out to draw water, & said vnto them, Is there here a Seer?
  • Gen 14:18 : 18 And Melchi-zedek King of Shalem brought foorth bread and wine: and he was a Priest of the most high God.
  • Gen 24:14-20 : 14 Graunt therefore that ye maide, to whom I say, Bowe downe thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drinke: if she say, Drinke, and I will giue thy camels drinke also: may be she that thou hast ordeined for thy seruant Izhak: and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed mercy on my master. 15 And nowe yer he had left speaking, beholde, Rebekah came out, the daughter of Bethuel, sonne of Milcah the wife of Nahor Abrahams brother, and her pitcher vpon her shoulder. 16 (And the maide was very faire to looke vpon, a virgine and vnknowen of man) and she went downe to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came vp. 17 Then the seruant ranne to meete her, and said, Let me drinke, I pray thee, a litle water of thy pitcher. 18 And she said, Drinke sir: and she hasted, and let downe her pitcher vpon her hand and gaue him drinke. 19 And when she had giuen him drinke, she said, I will drawe water for thy camels also vntill they haue drunken inough. 20 And she powred out her pitcher into the trough speedily; and ranne againe vnto the well to drawe water, and she drewe for all his camels.
  • Gen 29:6-9 : 6 Againe he sayd vnto them, Is he in good health? And they answered, He is in good health, and beholde, his daughter Rahel commeth with the sheepe. 7 Then he sayd, Lo, it is yet hie day, neither is it time that the cattell shoulde be gathered together: water ye the sheepe and go feede them. 8 But they sayde, We may not vntill all the flocks be brought together, and till men rolle the stone from the welles mouth, that we may water the sheepe. 9 While he talked with them, Rahel also came with her fathers sheepe, for she kept them. 10 And assoone as Iaakob saw Rahel ye daughter of Laban his mothers brother, and the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother, then came Iaakob neere, & rolled the stone fro the welles mouth, & watered ye flocke of Laban his mothers brother.
  • Gen 41:45 : 45 And Pharaoh called Iosephs name Zaphnath-paaneah: and he gaue him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah prince of On. then went Ioseph abrode in the land of Egypt.

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  • Exod 2:17-21
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    17Then the shepherds came and droue them away: but Moses rose vp and defended them, and watered their sheepe.

    18And whe they came to Reuel their father, he said, Howe are ye come so soone to day?

    19And they saide, A man of Egypt deliuered vs from the hand of the shepherdes, and also drew vs water ynough, and watered the sheepe.

    20Then he saide vnto his daughters, And where is he? why haue ye so left the man? call him that he may eate bread.

    21And Moses agreed to dwell with the man: who gaue vnto Moses Zipporah his daughter:

  • Exod 2:15
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    15Now Pharaoh heard this matter, & sought to slay Moses: therefore Moses fled from Pharaoh, and dwelt in the lande of Midian, and hee sate downe by a well.

  • Exod 3:1
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    1When Moses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, Priest of Midian, & droue the flocke to the backe side of the desert, and came to the Mountaine of God, Horeb,

  • Exod 18:1-2
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    1When Iethro the Priest of Midian Moses father in lawe heard all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and howe the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt,

    2Then Iethro the father in lawe of Moses, tooke Zipporah Moses wife, (after he had sent her away)

  • Num 25:6
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    6And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought vnto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the Congregation of the children of Israel, who wept before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

  • Num 25:15-16
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    15And the name of the Midianitish woman, that was slayne, was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was head ouer the people of his fathers house in Midian.

    16Againe ye Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

  • Exod 18:4-8
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    4And the name of the other was Eliezer: for the God of my father, said he, was mine helpe, & deliuered me from the sword of Pharaoh)

    5And Iethro Moses father in law came with his two sonnes, and his wife vnto Moses into the wildernes, where he camped by ye mout of God.

    6And he said to Moses, I thy father in law Iethro am come to thee, and thy wife & her two sonnes with her.

    7And Moses went out to meete his father in law, and did obeisance and kissed him, and eche asked other of his welfare: and they came into the tent.

    8Then Moses told his father in law all that the Lorde had done vnto Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians for Israels sake, and all the trauaile that had come vnto them by the way, and howe the Lord deliuered them.

  • Acts 7:29
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    29Then fled Moses at that saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begate two sonnes.

  • Exod 17:6
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    6Behold, I will stand there before thee vpon the rocke in Horeb, and thou shalt smite on the rocke, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drinke; Moses did so in the sight of the Elders of Israel.

  • Exod 1:15-16
    2 verses
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    15Moreouer the King of Egypt commanded ye midwiues of the Ebrewe women, (of which the ones name was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah)

    16And sayde, When ye doe the office of a midwife to the women of the Ebrewes, and see them on their stooles, if it be a sonne, then yee shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then let her liue.

  • 1 Kgs 11:18
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    18And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran, and tooke men with them out of Paran, and came to Egypt vnto Pharaoh King of Egypt, which gaue him an house, and appointed him vitailes, and gaue him lande.

  • Exod 2:7
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    7Then said his sister vnto Pharaohs daughter, Shall I go and cal vnto thee a nurce of the Ebrew women to nurce thee the childe?

  • Exod 2:5
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    5Then ye daughter of Pharaoh came downe to wash her in the riuer, and her maidens walked by the riuers side: and when shee sawe the arke among the bulrushes, she sent her maide to fet it.

  • Exod 2:9-11
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    9To whome Pharaohs daughter sayde, Take this childe away, and nurce it for me, and I wil reward thee. Then the woman tooke the childe and nurced him.

    10Nowe the childe grewe, and she brought him vnto Pharaohs daughter, and he was as her sonne, and she called his name Moses, because, said she, I drewe him out of the water.

    11And in those dayes, when Moses was growen, he went forth vnto his brethren, & looked on their burdens: also he sawe an Egyptian smiting an Ebrewe one of his brethren.

  • Gen 24:20
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    20And she powred out her pitcher into the trough speedily; and ranne againe vnto the well to drawe water, and she drewe for all his camels.

  • Gen 24:13
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    13Lo, I stand by the well of water, whiles the mens daughters of this citie come out to drawe water.

  • Acts 7:21
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    21And when he was cast out, Pharaos daughter tooke him vp, and nourished him for her owne sonne.

  • Gen 29:7-9
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    7Then he sayd, Lo, it is yet hie day, neither is it time that the cattell shoulde be gathered together: water ye the sheepe and go feede them.

    8But they sayde, We may not vntill all the flocks be brought together, and till men rolle the stone from the welles mouth, that we may water the sheepe.

    9While he talked with them, Rahel also came with her fathers sheepe, for she kept them.

  • Gen 46:32
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    32And the men are shepheardes, & because they are shepheardes, they haue brought their sheepe and their cattell, and all that they haue.

  • Gen 24:16
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    16(And the maide was very faire to looke vpon, a virgine and vnknowen of man) and she went downe to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came vp.

  • Num 27:1
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    1Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the sonne of Hepher, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh, of the familie of Manasseh, the sonne of Ioseph (and the names of his daughters were these, Mahlah, Noah and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah)

  • Exod 1:22
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    22Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Euery man childe that is borne, cast yee into the riuer, but reserue euery maide childe aliue.

  • Num 21:16
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    16And from thence they turned to Beer: the same is the well where the Lord said vnto Moses, Assemble the people, and I wil giue them water.

  • Num 36:10
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    10As the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad.

  • Gen 41:2
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    2And loe, there came out of the riuer seuen goodly kine and fatfleshed, and they fedde in a medowe: