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Exodus 2:16

Context

2:16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw 1  water 2  and fill 3  the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

1 tn The preterites describing their actions must be taken in an ingressive sense, since they did not actually complete the job. Shepherds drove them away, and Moses watered the flocks.

2 tn The object “water” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

3 tn This also has the ingressive sense, “began to fill,” but for stylistic reasons is translated simply “fill” here.



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