Exodus 2:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And the shepheardes came and droue them away: but Moyses stoode vp and helped them, and watred their sheepe.

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  • Gen 29:10 : 10 Assoone as Iacob sawe Rachel the daughter of Laban his mothers brother, & the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother, Iacob went & rouled the stone from the welles mouth, & watered the flocke of Laban his mothers brother.
  • Gen 21:25 : 25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a wel of water, which Abimeleches seruauntes had violently taken away.
  • Gen 26:15-22 : 15 For the Philistines stopped and fylled vp with earth all the welles which his seruauntes had digged in his father Abrahams tyme. 16 And Abimelech sayde vnto Isahac: Get thee from vs, for thou art mightier then we a great deale. 17 Therefore Isahac departed thence, and abode in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. 18 And Isahac returning, digged againe the welles of water which they digged in the dayes of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham, & named them after the same names by the which his father had named them. 19 Isahacs seruauntes digged in the valley, and founde a well of springyng water. 20 And the heardmen of Gerar did striue with Isahacs heardmen, saying: the water is ours. Then called he the well contention, because they stroue with hym. 21 And they digged another well, and stroue for that also: and he called the name of it enmitie. 22 And then he departed thence, & digged another well, for the which they stroue not. Therfore called he it roomth, saying: the Lorde hath made vs nowe roome that we may encrease vpon the earth.
  • Exod 2:12 : 12 And he loked rounde about, and when he sawe no man by, he slewe the Egyptian, and hyd hym in the sande.

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  • Exod 2:15-16
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    15And Pharao heard of it, and went about to slaye Moyses. And Moyses fleyng from the face of Pharao, dwelt in the lande of Madian: and he sate downe by the welles syde.

    16The priest of Madian had vij. daughters, which came and drewe water and filled the troughes for to water their fathers sheepe.

  • Exod 2:18-20
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    18And when they came to Raguel their father, he sayde: Howe came it to passe that ye are come so soone to day?

    19And they aunswered: A man of Egypt deliuered vs from the handes of the shepheardes, and so drewe vs water, and watered the sheepe.

    20He saide vnto his daughters: & where is he? why haue ye so left the man? Call hym, that he may eate bread.

  • 1Moyses kept the sheepe of Iethro his father in lawe, priest of Madian: and he droue the flocke to the backesyde of the desert, aud came to the mountayne of God Horeb.

  • Exod 2:10-11
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    10The chylde grewe, and she brought it vnto Pharaos daughter, and it was made her sonne. And she called ye name of it Moyses: because sayde she I toke hym out of the water.

    11And in those dayes, when Moyses was waxed great, he went out vnto his brethren, & loked on their burdens, and spyed an Egyptian smytyng an Hebrue which was one of his brethren.

  • Exod 17:2-6
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    2And ye people dyd chyde with Moyses, and sayde: geue vs water to drinke. Moyses said vnto them: why chyde you with me? wherfore do ye tempt ye Lord?

    3There the people thirsted for water, and ye people murmured agaynst Moyses, and saide: wherefore hast thou thus brought vs vp out of Egypt, to kil me, & my children, and my cattell with thyrst?

    4And Moyses cryed vnto the Lorde, saying: What shall I do vnto this people, they be almost redy to stone me?

    5And the Lorde said vnto Moyses: Go before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel: & thy rod wherewith thou smotest the ryuer take in thine hande, and go.

    6Beholde, I stande before thee vpon the rocke that is in Horeb, & thou shalt smyte the rocke, and there shall come water out thereof, that the people may drinke. And Moyses dyd euen so before the eyes of the elders of Israel.

  • 1Iethro ye priest of Madian Moyses father in lawe, heard of all that god had donefor Moyses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.

  • Exod 18:4-5
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    4The name of the other was Eliezer: for the God of my father sayde he was mine helpe, and deliuered me from the sworde of Pharao.

    5And Iethro Moyses father in lawe, came with his two sonnes, & his wife, vnto Moyses into ye wildernesse, where he abode by the mounte of God.

  • Exod 18:7-8
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    7And Moyses went out to meete his father in lawe, and did obeysaunce, and kyssed hym: and eche asked other of his health, and they came into the tent.

    8And Moyses tolde his father in lawe all that the Lorde had done vnto Pharao and to the Egyptians for Israels sake, and al the trauaile that had come vpon them by the way, and howe the Lorde deliuered them.

  • Gen 29:7-8
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    7And he sayde: loe it is yet a great whyle to nyght, neither is it tyme that the cattell should be gathered together: water ye the sheepe, and go and feede them.

    8And they sayde: we may not vntyll all the flockes be brought together, and tyl they roule the stone from the welles mouth, and so we water our sheepe.

  • 29Then fledde Moyses at that saying, and was a straunger in the lande of Madian, where he begate two sonnes.

  • 20And they met Moyses and Aaron, which stoode in their way as they came out from Pharao.

  • 17Which may go out & in before them, and leade them out and in, that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheepe which haue not a sheephearde.

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    13And on the morowe Moyses sate to iudge the people: and the people stoode about Moyses from morning vnto eue.

    14And when Moyses father in lawe sawe all that he dyd vnto the people, he sayd: what is this that thou doest vnto the people? Why sittest thou thy selfe alone, and all the people stande about thee from morning vnto euen?

    15And Moyses sayde to his father in lawe: because the people come vnto me to seeke counsayle of God.

  • 30And Moyses gate hym into the hoast, he and the elders of Israel.

  • 11And Moyses lyft vp his hande, and with his rodde he smote the rocke two tymes, and the water came out aboundauntly, and the multitude dranke, and their beastes also.

  • 9And Moyses toke the rodde from before the Lord, as he commaunded hym.

  • 21And when he was cast out, Pharaos daughter toke hym vp, & norished hym for her owne sonne.

  • 32And they are shepheardes, for theyr trade hath ben to feede cattell: and they haue brought theyr sheepe and theyr cattell, and all that they haue.

  • 20And Moyses toke his wyfe, and his sonnes, and put them on an asse, and went agayne to Egypt: And Moyses toke the rodde of God in his hande.

  • 17And Moyses brought the people out of the tentes to meete with God, and thei stoode at the neather part of the hil.

  • 13And Moyses sayde vnto the Lorde: Then the Egyptians shall heare it, (for thou broughtest this people in thy might from among them.)

  • 16And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:

  • 11And Moyses dyd as the Lorde commaunded hym, euen so dyd he.

  • 52But as for his owne people, he led them foorth like sheepe: and conducted them through the wildernesse like a flocke of cattell.

  • 22And so Moyses brought Israel from the redde sea, and they went out into the wyldernesse of Sur: and they went three dayes long in the wildernesse, and founde no waters.

  • 18Therfore Moyses went and returned to Iethro his father in law againe, and said vnto him: Let me go I pray thee nowe, and turne agayne vnto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet aliue. And Iethro said to Moyses: go in peace.

  • 25And Moyses rose vp, and went vnto Dathan and Abiram: and the elders of Israel folowed hym.

  • 31When Moyses sawe it, he wondred at ye sight: And as he drue neare to behold, the voyce of the Lord came vnto hym.