Exodus 2:20

20 He said, "So where is he? Why did you leave him behind? Invite him so he can have something to eat 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 got home to their father, Reuel, he said, "That didn't take long. Why are you back so soon?"
19 "An Egyptian," they said, "rescued us from a bunch of shepherds. Why, he even drew water for us and watered the sheep."
20 He said, "So where is he? Why did you leave him behind? Invite him so he can have something to eat with us."
21 Moses agreed to settle down there with the man, who then gave his daughter Zipporah (Bird) to him for his wife.
22 She had a son, and Moses named him Gershom (Sojourner), saying, "I'm a sojourner in a foreign country."
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