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16 aNow the priest of Midian had seven daughters. bAnd they came and drew water, and they filled the ctroughs to water their father’s flock.  
17 Then the ashepherds came and bdrove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and cwatered their flock.  
18 When they came to aReuel their father, bhe said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”  
19 And they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.”
20 So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may aeat bread.”  
21 Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave aZipporah his daughter to Moses.  
22 And she bore him a son. He called his name aGershom, for he said, “I have been ba stranger in a foreign land.”  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Exodus 2:16-22

the priest of Midian—or, "prince of Midian." As the officers were usually conjoined, he was the ruler also of the people called Cushites or Ethiopians, and like many other chiefs of pastoral people in that early age, he still retained the faith and worship of the true God.

seven daughters—were shepherdesses to whom Moses was favorably introduced by an act of courtesy and courage in protecting them from the rude shepherds of some neighboring tribe at a well. He afterwards formed a close and permanent alliance with this family by marrying one of the daughters, Zipporah, "a little bird," called a Cushite or Ethiopian (Numbers 12:1), and whom Moses doubtless obtained in the manner of Jacob by service [see Exodus 3:1]. He had by her two sons, whose names were, according to common practice, commemorative of incidents in the family history [Exodus 18:3-4].




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