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

The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.

Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.