OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 2:15

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Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

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Verse 15. Madian. A city and country of Arabia, which took its name from Madian the son of Abraham, by Cetura, and was peopled by his posterity. Challoner.—There were, perhaps, some of the descendants of Cham, by his son Chus, intermixed with them; ( Bible.) and hence Aaron reproaches the wife of Moses for being a Chusite. Numbers 12:1. Jethro was a Cinean, descended from the same stock.

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