Exodus 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.

Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Now it happened that the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came regularly to this well to draw water and fill the water troughs for their father’s flocks.

The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, filling the troughs and watering their father's sheep.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father’s flock.

The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

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.