Exodus 2:16-18

Contemporary English Version

¹⁶the seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian,^[a] came up to water their father's sheep and goats. ¹⁷Some shepherds tried to chase them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their animals. ¹⁸When Jethro's daughters returned home, their father asked, “Why have you come back so early today?”

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Footnotes

2.16 Jethro, the priest of Midian: Hebrew “the priest of Midian.” But see 3.1; 4.18; 18.1,2-4 where his name is given. In the Hebrew of verse 18 he is spoken of as “Reuel,” which may have been the name of the tribe to which Jethro belonged.