Exodus 2:17

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 2:17 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 21:25But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
  2. Genesis 26:15So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
  3. Genesis 29:10As 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.
  4. Exodus 2:12After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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