Exodus 2:19
They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the 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 50:11 : 11 When the Canaanites who lived in the land saw them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said,“This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians.” That is why its name was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
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- Exod 2:15-184 verses82%
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.
17When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.
18So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked,“Why have you come home so early today?”
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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.”
- Gen 47:3-42 verses75%
3Pharaoh said to Joseph’s brothers,“What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh,“Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did.”
4Then they said to Pharaoh,“We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
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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”).
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11Then they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink.
- Exod 18:8-103 verses73%
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.
9Jethro rejoiced because of all the good that the LORD had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.
10Jethro said,“Blessed be the LORD who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians’ control!
- Gen 46:32-343 verses73%
32The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
33Pharaoh will summon you and say,‘What is your occupation?’
34Tell him,‘Your servants have taken care of cattle from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for everyone who takes care of sheep is disgusting to the Egyptians.”
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18They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, gave him a house and some land and supplied him with food.
- Num 20:15-162 verses73%
15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
16So when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.
- Gen 29:7-93 verses73%
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.”
9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.
- Exod 2:7-115 verses72%
7Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter,“Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you?”
8Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Yes, do so.” So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.
9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.
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.
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24The servant in charge brought the men into Joseph’s house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. Then he gave food to their donkeys.
- Gen 29:2-32 verses72%
2He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
3When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.
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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?”
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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.
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21and they said to them,“May the LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”
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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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1Joseph’s Wise Administration Joseph went and told Pharaoh,“My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”
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16Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.
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12Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt,‘Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!’”
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19The midwives said to Pharaoh,“Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women– for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!”
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24All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.
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19Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.
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19When she had done so, she said,“I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”
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25They replied,“You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”
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6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
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8When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD. The LORD sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.