Exodus 2:17
When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.
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- Gen 29:10 : 10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.
- Gen 21:25 : 25 But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.
- Gen 26:15-22 : 15 So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham. 16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac,“Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.” 17 So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley. 18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them. 19 When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there, 20 the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying,“The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it. 21 His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah. 22 Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying,“For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”
- Exod 2:12 : 12 He looked this way and that and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand.
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- Exod 2:15-162 verses86%
15When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.
16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.
- Exod 2:18-203 verses82%
18So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked,“Why have you come home so early today?”
19They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”
20He said to his daughters,“So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us.”
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1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.
- Exod 2:10-112 verses72%
10When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying,“Because I drew him from the water.”
11The Presumption of the Deliverer In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.
- Exod 17:2-65 verses72%
2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”
4Then Moses cried out to the LORD,“What will I do with this people?– a little more and they will stone me!”
5The LORD said to Moses,“Go over before the people; take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.
6I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.
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1The Advice of Jethro Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
- Exod 18:4-52 verses71%
4and the other Eliezer(for Moses had said,“The God of my father has been my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).
5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camping by the mountain of God.
- Exod 18:7-82 verses71%
7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.
8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
- Gen 29:7-82 verses71%
7Then Jacob said,“Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.”
8“We can’t,” they said,“until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”
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29When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
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20When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them,
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17who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that the community of the LORD may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”
- Exod 18:13-153 verses70%
13On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.
14When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said,“What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”
15Moses said to his father-in-law,“Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
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30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.
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11Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.
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9So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as he commanded him.
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21and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
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32The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
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20Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
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17Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.
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13Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–
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16Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
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11So Moses did as the LORD commanded him– this is what he did.
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52Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.
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22The Bitter Water Then Moses led Israel to journey away from the Red Sea. They went out to the wilderness of Shur, walked for three days into the wilderness, and found no water.
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18The Return of Moses So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him,“Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses,“Go in peace.”
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25Then Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him.
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31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,