Verse 17

Some shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their flock.

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  • Gen 29:10 : 10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.
  • Gen 21:25 : 25 Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech about the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.
  • Gen 26:15-22 : 15 The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during the days of Abraham his father, filling them with dirt. 16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave us, for you have become much mightier than we are." 17 So Isaac departed from there, pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and settled there. 18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death; he gave them the same names his father had given them. 19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of flowing water there. 20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him. 21 Isaac’s servants then dug another well, but they also quarreled over it. So he named it Sitnah. 22 He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth, and he said, "Now the LORD has given us room, and we will flourish in the land."
  • Exod 2:12 : 12 Looking this way and that, and seeing no one, Moses struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.