Exodus 2:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But some shepherds came and drove them away. Moses got up and came to their defense and watered their flock.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

But some shepherds came along and rudely chased them away. Moses got up, rescued the women, and gave their flock water to drink.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The shepherds overcame them and drove them away. And Moses rose up, and defending the girls, he watered their sheep.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.

Exodus 2:17 Cross References

Genesis 21:25

When Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Genesis 29:10

Now when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of his mother’s brother Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of his mother’s brother Laban.

Genesis 29:3

and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.

Exodus 2:12

He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.