Exodus 2:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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 which Abimelech's servants had seized,

Genesis 29:10

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

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 upon 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.