Exodus 2:17

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Exodus 2:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

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

18 When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

19 “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

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But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Genesis 26:15

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 26:16

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

Genesis 26:17

So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

Genesis 26:18

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

Genesis 26:19

Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

Genesis 26:20

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Genesis 26:21

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

Genesis 26:22

He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

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.

Genesis 29:10

As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.