Devine Scripture

Exodus 2:17

Exodus chapter 2 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

v.17This passage

v.18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 21:25

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

  • 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.

  • 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 26:15

    Now all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.