Exodus 2:17
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New International Version (©2011)
Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But some other shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses jumped up and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he drew water for their flocks.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Some shepherds came to drive them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their sheep.

NET Bible (©2006)
When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But some shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses got up, came to their defense, and then watered their sheep.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

American King James 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.

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses ariseth, and saveth them, and watereth their flock.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the shepherds came and drove them away,.... The daughters of the priest of Midian, and their flock likewise; these were shepherds of some neighbouring princes or great men, who were so rude and slothful, and to save themselves a little trouble of drawing water, brought up their flocks to drink of the water those virgins had drawn, and to do this forced them and their flocks away:

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

The shepherds - drove them - The verb יגרשים yegareshum, being in the masculine gender, seems to imply that the shepherds drove away the flocks of Reuel's daughters, and not the daughters themselves. The fact seems to be, that, as the daughters of Reuel filled the troughs and brought their flocks to drink, the shepherds drove those away, and, profiting by the young women's labor, watered their own cattle. Moses resisted this insolence, and assisted them to water their flocks, in consequence of which they were enabled to return much sooner than they were wont to do, Exodus 2:18.

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

2:17 Stood up and helped them - This be did, because wherever he was, as occasion offered itself, he loved to be doing justice, and appearing in the defence of such as he saw injured. He loved to be doing good: wherever the Providence of God call us, we should desire and endeavour to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.

Exodus 2:17 Parallel Commentaries
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Moses Flees to Midian
15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelled in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. 16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. …

Genesis 29:3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well's mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
Genesis 29:10 When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.