Exodus 2:15-17

Expanded Bible

¹⁵ When ·the king [^LPharaoh] heard ·what Moses had done [^Lof the thing], he ·tried [sought] to kill him. But Moses ·ran away [fled] from ·the king [^LPharaoh] and went to live in the land of Midian [^Cprobably in the eastern Sinai peninsula or in western Arabia]. There he sat down near a well.

Moses in Midian

¹⁶ There was a priest in Midian [^CJethro; also known as Reuel] who had seven daughters. His daughters went to that well to ·get [draw] water to fill the water troughs for their father’s flock. ¹⁷ Some shepherds came and ·chased [drove] the girls away, but Moses defended the girls and watered their flock.