Exodus 2:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ And 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.

Exodus 2:17 Cross References

Genesis 29:10

And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

Genesis 21:25

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

Exodus 2:12

And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

Genesis 29:3

And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.