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Exodus 2:17
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15 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But aMoses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of bMidian; and he sat down by ca well.  
16 aNow the priest of Midian had seven daughters. bAnd they came and drew water, and they filled the ctroughs to water their father’s flock.  
17 Then the ashepherds came and bdrove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and cwatered their flock.  
18 When they came to aReuel their father, bhe said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”  
19 And they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.”
20 So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may aeat bread.”  
21 Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave aZipporah his daughter to Moses.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Exodus 2:17

The shepherds - drove them - The verb 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, Exodus 2:18.


 
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