Exodus 2:20

20 And he sayde vnto his doughters: where is he? why haue ye lefte the man? Goo call him that he maye eate bread.

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 And when they came to Raguel their father, he sayde: how happeneth it that ye are come so soone to daye?

19 And they answerede there was an Egiptia that delyuered vs fro the shepardes, and also drewe vs water and waterd the shepe.

20 And he sayde vnto his doughters: where is he? why haue ye lefte the man? Goo call him that he maye eate bread.

21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man. And he gaue Moses Zipora his doughter

22 which bare a sonne, ad he called him Gerson: for he sayde. I haue bene a straunger in a straunge lande.