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Exodus 2:17

Moses
JusticeCourage and strength

15 When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

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

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

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

19 “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

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BSB
And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.
KJV
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
WEB
The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
ASV
And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
DARBY
And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses rose and helped them, and watered their flock.
BLB
And the shepherds came and drove them away, and Moses arose and saved them, and he watered their flock.
ÅB
Så kom det noen gjætere og drev dem bort; men Moses sto opp og hjalp dem og vannet deres småfe.
OTB
Noen gjetere kom og drev dem bort, men Moses reiste seg, hjalp dem og vannet flokken deres.
B1930
Så kom det nogen gjætere og drev dem bort; men Moses stod op og hjalp dem og vannet deres småfe.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Genesis 29:10

    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.

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  • Genesis 21:25

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

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  • Exodus 2:12

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

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  • Genesis 26:15–22

    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.

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