Exodus 2:16 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁶ The prest Madian had seuen doughters, which came to drawe water, and fylled the troughes, to geue their fathers shepe to drinke.

¹⁸ But Melchisedech the kynge of Salem brought forth bred and wyne. And he beynge the prest of the most hye God,

¹¹ Then let he the Camels lye downe without before the cite besyde a well of water in the euenynge, aboute the tyme that the wemen vsed to go forth, and to drawe water.

¹⁴ Now yf there come a damsell, to whom I saye: bowe downe thy pytcher, & let me drynke, and yf she saye: drynke, and I wyll geue ye Camels drynke also: That ye same be she, whom thou hast prouyded for thy seruaunt Isaac: & that I maye knowe by ye same that thou hast shewed mercy vpon my master. ¹⁵ And or euer he had left of speakynge, beholde, Rebecca the doughter of Bethuel (which was the sonne of Milca, that was the wyfe of Nahor Abrahams brother) came forth, and bare a pytcher vpon hir shulder, ¹⁶ and she was a very fayre damsell of face, and yet a virgin, and vnknowne of eny man: She wente downe to the well, and fylled hir pitcher, and came vp agayne. ¹⁷ Then ranne the seruaunt to mete her, and sayde: Let me drynke a litle water out of yi pitcher. ¹⁸ And she sayde: drynke syr.And haistely let she downe the pitcher in hir hande, and gaue him drynke. ¹⁹ And whan she had geuen him drynke, she sayde: I wyll drawe for thy Camels also, tyll they haue dronke ynough. ²⁰ And she made haist, and poured out hir pitcher in to the trough, and ranne agayne to the well to drawe, and drew for all his Camels.

⁶ He sayde: Is he in good health? They answered: he is in good health. And lo, there commeth his doughter Rachel with the shepe. ⁷ He sayde: It is yet hye daye, & is not yet tyme to dryue in the catell: geue the shepe to drynke, & go youre waye, & fede them. ⁸ They answered: We can not, tyll all the flockes be brought together, and tyll we roule the stone from the welles mouth, & so geue the shepe drynke. ⁹ Whyle he yet talked with them, Rachel came with hir fathers shepe, for she kepte ye shepe. ¹⁰ Whan Iacob sawe Rachel ye doughter of Laban his mothers brother, and the shepe of Laban his mothers brother, he wete, & rouled the stone from the welles mouth, and gaue his mothers brother shepe to drynke,

⁴⁵ And he called him Zaphnath Paena, & gaue him a wife, euen Asnath the doughter of Potiphar the prest of On. So Ioseph wente out, for to vyset the lande of Egipte.

¹ Moses kepte the shepe of Iethro his father in lawe prest of Madian, & droue the shepe on the backsyde of the wyldernes, and came to the mountayne of God, Horeb.

¹¹ and came vp to the cite, they founde damsels which were gone forth to drawe water, vnto them they sayde: Is the Seer here?