Exodus 2:17

The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

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WEBBE

The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

BSB

And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.

KJV

And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

ASV

And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

BBE

And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 16–22

Moses found shelter in Midian. He was ready to help Reuel's daughters to water their flocks, although bred in learning and at court. Moses loved to be doing justice, and to act in defence of such as he saw injured, which every man ought to do, as far as it is in his power. He loved to be doing good; wherever the providence of God casts us, we should desire and try to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can. Moses commended himself to the prince of Midian; who married one of his daughters to Moses, by whom he had a son, called Gershom, "a stranger there," that he might keep in remembrance the land in which he had been a stranger.

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