SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:17
Mas los pastores vinieron, y las echaron. Entonces Moisés se levantó y las defendió, y dio de beber a sus ovejas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Exodus 2:17
Verse 17. The shepherds-drove them] The verb µyrgy 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 labour, 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, ver. 18.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 16-22 - Moses found shelter in Midian. He was ready to help Reuel's daughter to water their flocks, although bred in learning and at court. Mose loved to be doing justice, and to act in defence of such as he saw injured, which every man ought to do, as far as it is in his power. He loved to be doing good; wherever the providence of God casts us, we should desire and try to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can. Moses commended himsel to the prince of Midian; who married one of his daughters to Moses, by whom he had a son, called Gershom, "a stranger there," that he migh keep in remembrance the land in which he had been a stranger.
Original Hebrew
ויבאו 935 הרעים 7462 ויגרשׁום 1644 ויקם 6965 משׁה 4872 ויושׁען 3467 וישׁק 8248 את 853 צאנם׃ 6629
