Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Some shepherds came to drive them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their sheep.
New American Standard Bible
Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but
King James Version
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Holman Bible
Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock.
A Conservative Version
And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
American Standard Version
And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Amplified
Then shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.
Bible in Basic English
And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.
Darby Translation
And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses rose and helped them, and watered their flock.
Julia Smith Translation
And the shepherds will come, and will expel them: and Moses will rise up and help them, and will water their sheep.
King James 2000
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
Modern King James verseion
And the shepherds came and drove them away. But Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the shepherds came and drove them away: But Moses stood up and helped them and watered their sheep.
NET Bible
When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.
New Heart English Bible
The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
The Emphasized Bible
Then came the shepherds, and drave them away, - so Moses rose up, and succoured them, and watered their flock,
Webster
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
World English Bible
The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses ariseth, and saveth them, and watereth their flock.
Themes
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » moses
Jethro » Moses spent forty years of exile with, and married his daughter
Kindness » Examples of » moses
Selfishness » Examples of » Cain's cold-blooded words concerning abel
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 2:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Moses In Midian
16 Meanwhile, the seven daughters of a certain Midianite priest would come to draw water in order to fill water troughs for their father's sheep. 17 Some shepherds came to drive them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their sheep. 18 When they returned to their father Reuel, he asked, "Why have you returned so quickly today?"
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Cross References
Genesis 29:10
When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, accompanied by Laban's sheep, Jacob approached the well, rolled the stone from the opening of the well, and then watered his mother's brother Laban's flock.
Genesis 21:25
But then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized.
Genesis 26:15-22
They filled in with sand all of the wells that Isaac's father Abraham's servants had dug during his lifetime.
Exodus 2:12
Looking around and seeing no one else, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.