When he arrived at the spring of Midian, he found there a crowd of people watering their flocks, and he found apart from them two women holding their flocks back. He asked the women: "What is it that troubles you?" They said: "We cannot water our flocks until the shepherds take their flocks away, and our father is a very old man."
و چون به آب مدين رسيد، گروهى از مردم را بر [گرد] آن يافت كه [دام‌هاى خود را] آب مى‌دادند، و پشت سرشان دو زن را يافت كه [گوسفندان خود را] از آب باز مى‌دارند. گفت: كار شما چيست؟ گفتند: [ما به گوسفندان خود] آب نمى‌دهيم تا شبانان [گوسفندانشان را] بازگردا