Exodus 2:20

20 Reuel said to his daughters, "So where is he? Why did you leave this man? Invite him to eat a meal with us."

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 When they went back home to their father Reuel, he asked, "How were you able to come back home so soon today?"
19 They replied, "An Egyptian man rescued us from a bunch of shepherds. Afterward, he even helped us draw water to let the flock drink."
20 Reuel said to his daughters, "So where is he? Why did you leave this man? Invite him to eat a meal with us."
21 Moses agreed to come and live with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses as his wife.
22 She gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, "because," he said, "I've been an immigrant living in a foreign land."
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