Exodus 2:17 Cross References - Rotherham

¹⁷ Then came the shepherds, and drave them away,––so Moses rose up, and succoured them, and watered their flock.

²⁵ But Abraham reproved Abimelech,––on account of the well of water, which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

¹⁵ And, as for all the wells, which the servants of his father digged, in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up, and filled them with dust. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said unto Isaac,––Get thee from us, for thou hast become far mightier than we. ¹⁷ So Isaac went from thence,––and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. ¹⁸ And Isaac again digged the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father, and which the Philistines stopped up after the death of Abraham,––and he called their names, after the names which his father called them. ¹⁹ And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley,––and found, there, a well of living water. ²⁰ And the herdmen of Gerar disputed with the herdmen of Isaac, saying, Ours, is the water! So he called the name of the well, Esek, because they had stirred up a quarrel with him. ²¹ And they digged another well, and they disputed over that also,––so he called the name thereof, Sitnah. ²² And he moved on from thence, and digged another well, and they disputed not for it,––so he called the name thereof, Rehoboth, and said, For, now, hath Yahweh made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

¹⁰ And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel, daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled away the stone from off the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother.

¹² So he turned this way and that, and, when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.