Exodus 2:20

20 And he said to his daughters, And where is he? and why have ye left the man? call him therefore, that he may eat 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 they came to Raguel their father; and he said to them, Why have ye come so quickly to-day?

19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us from the shepherds, and drew water for us and watered our sheep.

20 And he said to his daughters, And where is he? and why have ye left the man? call him therefore, that he may eat bread.

21 And Moses was established with the man, and he gave Sepphora his daughter to Moses to wife.

22 And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gersam, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.