Exodus 2:17

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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.

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  • Exod 2:15-16
    2 verses
    86%

    15When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.

    16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.

  • Exod 2:18-20
    3 verses
    82%

    18When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked, 'Why have you returned so early today?'

    19They answered, 'An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.'

    20Reuel said to his daughters, 'And where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to have something to eat.'

  • Exod 3:1
    77%

    1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Exod 2:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, 'I drew him out of the water.'

    11One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.

  • Exod 17:2-6
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    72%

    2So the people quarreled with Moses, saying, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied to them, "Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the LORD?"

    3But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

    4Then Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "What should I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me!"

    5The LORD answered Moses, "Go ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go."

    6The LORD continued, "I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink." So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 18:1
    72%

    1Jethro, the priest of Midian and Moses’ father-in-law, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

  • Exod 18:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4The name of the other son was Eliezer, meaning, 'My God is my help,' for Moses had said, 'The God of my father was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.'

    5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God, bringing Moses’ wife and his two sons with him.

  • Exod 18:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

    8Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, all the hardships they had faced along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

  • Gen 29:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7He said, 'Look, the day is still high; it is not time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them out to pasture.'

    8But they said, 'We cannot until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled away from the well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep.'

  • Acts 7:29
    71%

    29When Moses heard this, he fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.

  • Exod 5:20
    71%

    20When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them,

  • Num 27:17
    70%

    17to go out and come in before them, to lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.

  • Exod 18:13-15
    3 verses
    70%

    13The next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.

    14When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything he was doing for the people, he said, 'What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning till evening?'

    15Moses answered his father-in-law, 'Because the people come to me to inquire of God.'

  • Num 11:30
    70%

    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Num 20:11
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    11Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water came out abundantly, and the community and their livestock drank.

  • Num 20:9
    69%

    9So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence, just as he was commanded.

  • Acts 7:21
    69%

    21When he was abandoned, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

  • Gen 46:32
    69%

    32The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks, herds, and everything they own.

  • Exod 4:20
    69%

    20So Moses took his wife and his sons, put them on a donkey, and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

  • Exod 19:17
    69%

    17Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

  • Num 14:13
    69%

    13But Moses said to the LORD, "The Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.

  • Num 25:16
    69%

    16The LORD said to Moses,

  • Num 17:11
    69%

    11Moses said to Aaron, 'Take your censer and put incense on it, along with fire from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun.'

  • Ps 78:52
    68%

    52But He led His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

  • Exod 15:22
    68%

    22Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went into the Desert of Shur. They traveled for three days in the desert without finding water.

  • Exod 4:18
    68%

    18Then Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, 'Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt to see if they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.'

  • Num 16:25
    68%

    25Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

  • Acts 7:31
    68%

    31Moses was amazed at what he saw. As he approached to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say,