Exodus 2:17 “And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up…”

Exodus 2:17

And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

World English Bible

The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

American Standard Version

And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the shepherds came and droue them away: but Moses rose vp and defended them, and watered their sheepe.

Darby Translation

And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses rose and helped them, and watered their flock.

Young's Literal Translation

and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses ariseth, and saveth them, and watereth their flock.

Bible in Basic English

And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.

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Cross references

“shepherds”

Genesis 21:25 Genesis 26:15–22

Genesis 21:25 · BSB

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Genesis 26:15–22 · BSB

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

“watered”

Genesis 29:10 Exodus 2:12

Genesis 29:10 · BSB

As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

Exodus 2:12 · BSB

After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

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