Exodus 2:20

20 "Where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat."

Exodus 2:20 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 2:20

And he said unto his daughters, and where is he?
&c.] By the account Reuel's daughters gave of Moses, of his courage and humanity, he was very desirous of seeing him:

why [is it] that ye have left the man?
behind them at the well, and had not brought him along with them; he seemed to be displeased, and chides them, and tacitly suggests that they were rude and ungrateful not to ask a stranger, and one that had been so kind to them, to come with them and refresh himself:

call him, that he may eat bread;
take meat with them, bread being put for all provisions.

Exodus 2:20 In-Context

18 The young women returned to their father Reuel. He asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"
19 They answered, "An Egyptian saved us from the shepherds. He even got water for us and gave it to the flock."
20 "Where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat."
21 Moses agreed to stay with the man. And the man gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses to be his wife.
22 Zipporah had a son by him. Moses named him Gershom. Moses said, "I'm an outsider in a strange land."
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