16 Now the priest [1] of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

Other Translations of Exodus 2:16

New International Version

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.

English Standard Version

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

The Message

16 The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, filling the troughs and watering their father's sheep.

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came as usual to draw water and fill the water troughs for their father's flocks.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 2:16

Commentary on Exodus 2:16-22

(Read Exodus 2:16-22)

Moses found shelter in Midian. He was ready to help Reuel's daughters to water their flocks, although bred in learning and at court. Moses loved to be doing justice, and to act in defence of such as he saw injured, which every man ought to do, as far as it is in his power. He loved to be doing good; wherever the providence of God casts us, we should desire and try to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can. Moses commended himself to the prince of Midian; who married one of his daughters to Moses, by whom he had a son, called Gershom, "a stranger there," that he might keep in remembrance the land in which he had been a stranger.