Chūāijíjì 2:18

18 Tāmen lái dào fùqin Liúĕr nàli , tā shuō , jīnrì nǐmen wèihé lái de zhème kuaì ne .

Chūāijíjì 2:18 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 2:18

And when they came to Reuel their father
Or Ragouel, as the Septuagint; and so Artapanus ^F19 calls him. The Targum of Jonathan has it, their father's father; and so Aben Ezra says he was; and is the sense of others, induced thereto by ( Numbers 10:29 ) , but it does not follow from thence: he said,

how is it that you are come so soon today?
it being not only sooner than they were wont to come, but perhaps their business was done in so short a time; that it was marvellous to him that it could be done in it, so quick a dispatch had Moses made, and they through his assistance; and especially it might be more strange, if it was usual, as it seems it was, to be molested by the shepherds.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Ut supra. (Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 434.)

Chūāijíjì 2:18 In-Context

16 Yī rì , tā zaì jǐng páng zuò xià . Mǐdiàn de jìsī yǒu qī gè nǚér , tāmen lái dá shuǐ , Dámǎn le caó , yào yìn fùqin de qún yáng .

17 Yǒu mù yáng de rén lái , bǎ tāmen gǎn zǒu le , Móxī què qǐlai bāngzhu tāmen , yòu yìn le tāmen de qún yáng .

18 Tāmen lái dào fùqin Liúĕr nàli , tā shuō , jīnrì nǐmen wèihé lái de zhème kuaì ne .

19 Tāmen shuō , yǒu yī gè Āijí rén jiù wǒmen tuōlí mù yáng rén de shǒu , bìngqiĕ wèi wǒmen dá shuǐ yìn le qún yáng .

20 Tā duì nǚér men shuō , nàge rén zaì nǎli , nǐmen wèishénme piĕ xià tā ne . nǐmen qù qǐng tā lái chī fàn .