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The Book of Exodus, Chapter 2, Verse 17

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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew [water], and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
King James Version
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
American Standard Version
And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
New English Translation
When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.
World English Bible
The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How [is it that] ye are come so soon to day?
19
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew [water] enough for us, and watered the flock.
20
And he said unto his daughters, And where [is] he? why [is] it [that] ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
21
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
22
And she bare [him] a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
23
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto [them].
1
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, [even] to Horeb.
2
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.