Exodus 2:17 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 2:17

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped 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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The shepherds - drove them - The verb יגרשים yegareshum, being in the masculine gender, seems to imply that the shepherds drove away the flocks of Reuel’s daughters, and not the daughters themselves. The fact seems to be, that, as the daughters of Reuel filled the troughs and brought their flocks to drink, the shepherds drove those away, and, profiting by the young women’s labor, watered their own cattle. Moses resisted this insolence, and assisted them to water their flocks, in consequence of which they were enabled to return much sooner than they were wont to do, Exo 2:18.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ	vai.ya.Vo.'u	and they came	H935 →
הָרֹעִ֖ים	ha.ro.'Im	the shepherds	H7462 →
וַיְגָרְשׁ֑וּם	vay.ga.re.Shum	and they drove away them	H1644 →
וַיָּ֤קָם	vai.Ya.kom	and he arose	H6965 →
מֹשֶׁה֙	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
וַיּ֣וֹשִׁעָ֔ן	vai.Yo.o.shi.'An	and he delivered them	H3467 →
וַיַּ֖שְׁקְ	vai.Yashk	and he watered	H8248 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
צֹאנָֽם׃	tzo.Nam	flock their	H6629 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 21:25
But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
leads to
- Genesis 26:15–22
  So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
- Genesis 29:8
  But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
- Proverbs 27:5
  Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
- Proverbs 25:9
  Argue your case with your neighbor without betraying another’s confidence,
- Proverbs 17:10
  A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.
Through
Exodus 2:12
After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
leads to
- Acts 7:24–26
  And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.