Exodus 2:17

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses arises, and saves them, and waters their flock.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Then the shepherds came and droue them away: but Moses rose vp and defended them, and watered their sheepe.

JPS

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

LXXE

And the shepherds came, and were driving them away; and Moses rose up and rescued them, and drew water for them, and watered their sheep.

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WLC

וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ הָרֹעִ֖ים וַיְגָרְשׁ֑וּם וַיָּ֤קָם מֹשֶׁה֙ וַיּ֣וֹשִׁעָ֔ן וַיַּ֖שְׁקְ אֶת־צֹאנָֽם׃

LXX-Br

Παραγενόμενοι δὲ οἱ ποιμένες ἐξέβαλλον αὐτάς· ἀναστὰς δὲ Μωυσῆς ἐῤῥύσατο αὐτὰς, καὶ ἤντλησεν αὐταῖς, καὶ ἐπότισε τὰ πρόβατα αὐτῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• Genesis 21:25But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
• Genesis 26:15–22So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham. Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.” So…
• Exodus 2:12After 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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