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Exodus 2:16

King James Version (KJV)

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Exodus 2:16

Verse 16 of 25

Scripture focus

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

Exodus 2:16 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Exodus 2:16

Theological / Devotional

The priest of Midian. The Midianites were descendants of Abraham by Keturah (Gen. 25:1, 2), and may have remained worshipers of the true God for some time. Reuel, at least, with whom Moses made his abode (Ex. 2:18, 21), was a priest of the true God (ch. 18:12, 23; see PP 247).

Seven daughters. This is not the first instance in the Bible story in which women are found pasturing the flocks of their father. Rachel kept her father Laban’s sheep and watered them (Gen. 29:9). Such a practice agrees well with the simplicity of primitive times and peoples, nor would it be regarded as strange in Arabia even at the present day.

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